A few days ago I received my contributor’s copy of Cthulhu’s Reign in the mail. It’s a themed anthology whose approach is stated concisely by the description at Amazon: Some of the darkest hints in all of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos relate to what will happen after the Old Ones return and take over the…
Author: Matt Cardin
Teeming Brain founder and editor Matt Cardin is the author of DARK AWAKENINGS, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP, A COURSE IN DEMONIC CREATIVITY: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO THE INNER GENIUS, and TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN. He is also the editor of BORN TO FEAR: INTERVIEWS WITH THOMAS LIGOTTI and the academic encyclopedias MUMMIES AROUND THE WORLD; GHOSTS, SPIRITS, AND PSYCHICS: THE PARANORMAL FROM ALCHEMY TO ZOMBIES; and HORROR LITERATURE THROUGH HISTORY.
The Reanimation — and Rehabilitation — of Walt Disney
Like so many of my fellow Gen-X-ers, I led a childhood that was significantly Disneyfied. The first movie I ever saw, as relayed to me by my parents (since it occurred at an age far too young for me to remember), was Disney’s Cinderella. Beginning at the age of four, I took several trips with…
Peak Oil: Time to shut up as the conversation goes global
Okay, I officially don’t have to talk to anybody ever again about peak oil. Today U.K. energy minister Lord Hunt made the whole thing an official topic of front-table discussion: Energy minister will hold summit to calm rising fears over peak oil Lord Hunt calls UK industrialists together to discuss government response to any early…
There are no words
I mean that both literally and figuratively, the former because the “lyrics” to this song consist mostly of jolly, wordless vocalizing, and the latter because . . . well, just have a look. I’m speechless and giddy all at once, and also strangely aroused and disturbed by delirious visions of a reality I’m not sure…
Interview: “Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror” (Lovecraft News Network)
I’ve just been interviewed by the Lovecraft News Network: Interview with Matt Cardin: Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror The title does a good job of conveying the overall gist. The LNN’s Jacob Hodgen did a fairly amazing job of coming up with detailed, fascinating, and carefully targeted questions, so hats off to him.
Lovecraft, Meet Yahweh: The Biblical Book of Isaiah as a Horror Story (Interview)
A new interview with me about my academic reading of the biblical book of Isaiah as a cosmic horror story has just been published at TheoFantastique: Matt Cardin — “Gods and Monsters, Worms and Fire: A Horrific Reading of Isaiah” The “Gods and Monsters” paper itself appears in my imminent next book, Dark Awakenings. Topics…
A New Blog: Demon Muse
[UPDATE, August 2013: I recently closed Demon Muse because of repeated hacks. The ebook that I produced from material published there, A Course in Demonic Creativity, is now available here at The Teeming Brain.] I’ve started a new blog titled Demon Muse. Its dedicated topic is the daimonic model of creativity and human selfhood. Here’s…
Google CEO Worries that Google Is Making Us Stupid
Okay, so the headline I gave to this post is a bit slanted for rhetorical effect. When Eric Schmidt, Google’s 54-year-old chief execusive and chairman, spoke last Friday, January 29 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he didn’t actually repeat and respond to the question contained in the sensationalistic headline of Nicholas Carr’s…
Sleep Paralysis: The ultimate horror
I’m just going to share these YouTube movie previews with minimal comment, since I have already talked here in the past about my experiences with sleep paralysis. If you’ve never experienced it, be advised that sleep paralysis really is as thoroughly and deeply shattering as the people in these videos make it out to be….
Our task: Envisioning and creating a new relationship with money
The following comes from a truly wonderful Jan. 25 essay by Charles Leadbeater at New Statesman titled “The best things in life are free.” No comment necessary, other than to express gratitude for such a lucid and moving exposition of a truth so crucial it hurts (and one that’s just as true for the U.S….