Apparently, working from home during the current disruption and suspension of all normal activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic is leaving me too much time and mental space for reflection. Please pardon me while I ill-advisedly correlate some contents and piece together some dissociated knowledge. Bernardo Kastrup in Scientific American: [A]s Kuhn pointed out, when…
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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…
Praise from John Langan for TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
I’ve been a serious admirer of John Langan’s work ever since reading his startlingly excellent debut collection of weird horror fiction, Mr Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (2008), followed by his equally startlingly excellent first novel, House of Windows (2009). As you probably know, both these and his subsequent books have gone on to establish…
Praise from Richard Gavin for TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
To Rouse Leviathan appears to have aroused a lot of interest among horror readers, judging from the response on social media and elsewhere. Richard Gavin, one of the contemporary masters of weird and occult/esoteric horror, says the following: Matt Cardin is one of the most vital figures in 21st-century Horror. Whether he is penning visionary…
Praise from Jon Padgett for TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
Jon Padgett is the author of The Secret of Ventriloquism, The Infusorium, and other books and stories that you really ought to be reading if you want to keep up with some of the very best of what’s happening on the cutting edge of contemporary weird and supernatural horror fiction. He says the following about…
Advance praise from Thomas Ligotti for TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
To offer some satisfaction for this awful and wondrous craving is the gift of this book.
TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN now available for preorder
Preorder from Amazon or Hippocampus Press To Rouse Leviathan is now officially scheduled for publication in August. More specifically, the listed date is August 20, which just happens to be Lovecraft’s birthday. I don’t know if Hippocampus Press planned that, but I certainly took note of it myself. Here’s the official publisher’s description: Since the…
Cover art for TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN
This week Hippocampus Press revealed the cover for my forthcoming To Rouse Leviathan. The striking wraparound artwork is by Michael Hutter. The overall design is by Dan Sauer. The book is scheduled for publication later this year. I’ll share a specific date soon, along with preorder information when it becomes available. For now, the full…
‘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.
Projects in progress
To quote Pink Floyd: Is there anybody out there? Three days from now will mark six full months since my last Teeming Brain post. Experienced readers of this blog might well surmise that my conflicted relationship with the Internet has been gaining more and more distance over time. These readers would be correct. A number…