In a video clip I recently stumbled across, Richard Bach describes his experiences as a subject in Targ and Puthoff’s remote viewing experiments at SRI in the 1970s.
Category: Arts & Entertainment
‘To Rouse Leviathan’ is actually happening
Leviathan is finally being roused. My third horror fiction collection, To Rouse Leviathan, will soon be available from Hippocampus Press.
My interview for the Weird Studies podcast
Recently, I was interviewed for the excellent Weird Studies podcast. The episode, titled “On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin,” dropped yesterday. You can listen to it with the player above or by clicking through to the site itself. Here’s the episode description: Neil Gaiman wrote, If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are…
My chapter in ‘The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror’
I’m pleased to announce that The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror, just out from Britain’s Flame Tree Publishing, contains a chapter by me. S. T. Joshi served as consultant editor for the project. He also wrote the book’s introduction. Ramsey Campbell provided the foreword. Other chapter contributors include Roger Luckhurst, Mike Ashley, Michael…
“Flight from the City” and “Ama” – Two short films of aqueous feminine beauty
This short film from 2016 is the official video accompaniment for JĂłhann JĂłhannsson’s “Flight from the City,” the opening track from his sublime final album, 2016’s OrphĂ©e. OrphĂ©e traces a path from darkness into light, inspired by the Orpheus myth. A story about death and rebirth, the elusive nature of creation and art and the ephemeral…
Booklist names ‘Horror Literature through History’ a Top 10 Reference Book
Booklist has named my horror encyclopedia one of the top ten reference works it reviewed between May 2017 and May 2018, saying that all the books on the list “represent useful resources for libraries of all sizes.” You can also read Booklist‘s full starred review of Horror Literature through History, where the upshot is this:…
The inherent sadness of stop-motion puppets: Short film ‘Stems’
A short film by BAFTA award-winning Scottish animator Ainslie Henderson, with music by Poppy Ackroyd. Suddenly, what was just stuff becomes this character staring back at you. What I love about stop-motion puppets is that they have this inherent sadness about them. They’re like little actors that only ever get to play one role. Everything…
Published: “Vastarien: A Literary Journal” – Vol. 1, No. 1
To quote someone or other: It is finished. After three years of planning, preparation, and intensive editorial work by Jon Padgett and me (and a handful of additional key individuals), the first issue of Vastarien is now available. Early responses from readers are enthusiastically positive. Both print and Kindle editions can be purchased through Amazon….
A Penguin Classics edition of Ligotti’s ‘The Conspiracy against the Human Race’
First there was the Penguin Classics combined edition of Ligotti’s Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. Now there’s this forthcoming Penguin Classics edition of his The Conspiracy against the Human Race, to be published this October, with another beautiful cover by Chris Mars and a new preface by Ligotti himself. The canonization continues. Here’s…
This Is Horror, Episode 193: Jon Padgett and Matt Cardin on “Vastarien” and More
In this just-published episode of the This Is Horror Podcast, Jon Padgett and I talk with hosts Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella about our new project Vastarien: A Literary Journal, along with other matters of interest. Click to listen or download. Note that at the time of this writing, our Vastarien Kickstarter campaign, to…