Oh. My. God. Words can’t capture the wondrous awesomeness of this thing. Especially for somebody like me, who came of age in the 1980s, watched Eight Is Enough, was weaned on the likes of The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo’s Fire, and flipped over the original The Karate Kid. Ralph Macchio playing himself at 48,…
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Published: DARK AWAKENINGS
The wait is over. The stars are right. Some rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born, and my long-awaited Dark Awakenings collection is now loosed upon the world. Publisher: Mythos Books Date: May 2010 Length: 319 pages Table of Contents: Available at MattCardin.com Click here to purchase the book directly from the publisher and…
Can Hollywood help us envision a post-apocalyptic world that’s not so bad?
Everything indeed appears to be lining up in favor of producing a post-petroleum, and therefore post-how-we-live-now, world of the near future. You and I will see and experience the transition within our own lifetimes, if we live what’s now considered a normal span. So here’s hoping. As in, hoping not for Star Trek, and definitely not for Mad Max, but for Mayberry.
Narrative frames and perceptive reviewers
The creator of the online fiction review site A Story a Day Keeps Boredom Away recently reviewed all of the stories in the new Dark Faith anthology. He had this to say about my story “Chimeras & Grotesqueries”: I love the type of story that starts with a preface declaring that what follows was found…
Cthulhu’s Reign: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
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…
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…
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…
What I read in 2009
In 2009 I accomplished something in my life as a reader that I had never before accomplished: I kept a list — I’m talking about a full list — of everything I read. Not just books, but short fiction, poetry, and — in the most gargantuan category of all — articles, essays, and reviews. I…