Early last month I was the featured guest on an episode of the Lovecraft eZine podcast. Here’s the conversation, in which the free-flowing topics included include Ligotti, Lovecraft, Jon Padgett, weird fiction, religion, Leviathan, Behemoth, sleep paralysis, and belief vs. spiritual awakening. You can also listen to the audio podcast version, where my audio levels…
Tag: religion and horror
Horror Movies, Transcendence, and a Symbiosis between the Demonic and the Divine
Here’s Will H. Rockett, in his book Devouring Whirlwind: Terror and Transcendence in the Cinema of Cruelty, saying things that affected and influenced me deeply in the 1990s when I was first divining the nexus of responsiveness that I had recognized within myself to intimations of religious transcendence both divine and demonic, beatific and horrifying,…
Podcast interview: “The Fine Line between Horror and Religion”
The Monster Complex podcast has just published a new interview with me: The Fine Line between Horror and Religion In addition to the item named in the title, the conversation encompasses a number of related topics and tangents, including my thoughts on why there may never be a totally successful film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s…
Interview with me at Sublime Horror about horror, theology, and TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
Today the website Sublime Horror published an interview with me on the theological ideas that went into To Rouse Leviathan and the connections that I’ve long drawn between horror and religion: Matt Cardin: ‘What drew me to religion was the same thing that drew me to horror’ The questions from interviewer Laura Kemmerer drew out…
My spiritual autobiography: A video interview
In 2017 I published an enthusiastic review of Jerry L. Martin’s God: An Autobiography here at The Teeming Brain, and also at Amazon. The book presents Martin’s account of being an atheist who was hit with an unexpected experience of what presented itself as divine communication. Over the course of about a year, he found…
‘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.
What if God is horrifying?
Yes, of course, this is a topic that I have broached many times before. But this recent — and fantastically brilliant — video from The Onion brought it roaring back to the forefront of my thoughts. (Hat tip to J. F. Martel for alerting me to it.) And of course that reminded me of —…
Teeming Links – July 4, 2014
If current world events have you wondering — or especially if they don’t have you wondering — about the possibility of a bona fide new world war, please bear this in mind: a hundred years ago World War One was impossible — until it was inevitable. So, is anybody really surprised that Facebook was (is?)…
A new interview with me: “Life and Mind of a Teeming Brain”
My online friend Rafael Melo has just published a new interview with me at his blog Cloudy Sky. Topics include my reasons for writing about horror and religion and such, my creative process, the centrality of depression and dread in my life as a writer, my favorite music and movies, the deep meaning of…
Teeming Links – April 25, 2014
We’re entering an age of energy impoverishment. Richard Heinberg explains: “It’s hard to overstate just how serious a threat our energy crisis is to every aspect of our current way of life. But the problem is hidden from view by oil and natural gas production numbers that look and feel just fine. . . ….