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.
Tag: religion and horror
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…
DARK AWAKENINGS — Final table of contents
It occurs to me that I haven’t yet shared the final TOC for Dark Awakenings, even though, as I mentioned earlier today, the book is on schedule for publication this November or December. So here it is: TABLE OF CONTENTS for DARK AWAKENINGS Apologia Pro Libro Suo FICTIONS: Teeth The Stars Shine Without Me Desert…
DARK AWAKENINGS: Signed, sealed, and delivered at last
Yesterday around 2 a.m. I hit the “send” button to email the completed manuscript of my forthcoming collection of horror stories and essays, Dark Awakenings, to its publisher, Mythos Books. This was a long time coming. People who liked my first book, Divinations of the Deep, have been asking me ever since its publication in…
Fiction as Religion: Some good words about DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP
Here’s something for those of you who have read or are thinking about reading my first book, the cosmic-spiritual horror collection Divinations of the Deep (Ash-Tree Press, 2002). Last month Des Lewis, better known to the world at large as extremely prolific and much-respected weird horror author and editor D.F. Lewis, bought a copy of…
Religious Horror: the burgeoning cultural moment
What an interesting cultural moment it is for somebody like me, who holds an obsessive interest in religion, horror, and the interface between them. For example, it’s widely recognized that zombies have become the monsters of the moment in contemporary horror entertainment. Zombie-themed movies have been flooding movie theatres for the past five or six…
Brian McNaughton’s “lost” introduction to DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP
I just returned last night from attending the World Fantasy Convention in Austin, Texas. I’ll be posting a full report on my experiences there some time in the next week or so, but right now, in order to meet my self-imposed weekly blog deadline, I thought I’d go ahead and share something I’ve been planning…
Return of the nightmare angel
Sorry to all for having missed my normal Saturday update. Naturally I would never willingly fail to meet a self-imposed deadline. Naturally. In case you haven’t heard, one week from today the ABC television network will premier a limited series titled Fallen, which is based on a series of young-adult books about angelic warfare. A…
Dæmonyx: What’s in a name?
For the past year and a half I’ve been recording music with a mind toward publishing a CD. In that time I’ve returned frequently to the question of what I should name my musical project. Right from the start I knew the name would have to be something centered around the idea of the daimonic…