A few weeks ago I was interviewed for the Genre Traveler podcast, created and hosted by Carma Spence. It’s now live and available, and Carma has created a cool page full of notes to go with the audio. Here’s the episode description: This week I chat with Matt Cardin about religion and horror. Along the…
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Podcast of my interview about religion and horror on SPIRITUALLY RAW
My interview on the “Raw Factor” segment of this morning’s Spiritually Raw radio broadcast felt like it went well. Hosts Ajay and April proved to be excellent conversationalists as they talked with me about my central focus as an author (and human being) on the convergence of religious experience with horror fiction and film, and…
New interview at Dystopia Press
Just published: “Meet the Author: Matt Cardin” This is an interview with me at the blog for Dystopia Press, a new publisher of apocalyptic and dystopian fiction (founded in late 2009). Dystopia Press is run by Mark Long, who also created and runs TSTC Publishing, the official press of the Texas State Technical College system….
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…
Interview: The spirituality of George Romero’s zombie movies
I’ve just been interviewed by TheoFantastique, the excellent website devoted to examining the religious resonances of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. In “Spirituality in Romero’s Living Dead Films” (Dec. 3), TheoFantastique’s proprietor, John Morehead, quizzes me about my academic paper “Loathsome Objects: George Romero’s Living Dead Films as Contemplative Tools,” which appears in my forthcoming…
My interview at Thomas Ligotti Online
It’s no news to my readers — whether they know me from The Teeming Brain, my literary critical work, my published stories, or some combination thereof — that I’m a huge fan of contemporary horror writer Thomas Ligotti, whom I honestly consider to be one of the greatest living writers in the English language (an…
My interview with Stephen Jones in Cemetery Dance #59
My interview with horror editor/anthologist extraordinaire Stephen Jones has finally been given a definite publication date in the venerable horror industry magazine Cemetery Dance. I first mentioned this interview nearly a year ago, in May of 2007, in a post titled “Stephen Jones on the death of reading” that contained a substantial excerpt detailing Steve’s…