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NEWS: February 8, 2009
I was interviewed by the website TheoFantastique in December: "Matt Cardin: Spirituality in Romero's Living Dead Films."
Dark Awakenings has received a strong new endorsement: "In a wonderfully readable, multi-layered collection, Matt Cardin shows us that he knows, as very few do, how to write -- from several perspectives, including as a researcher -- in a way that is both riveting and richly detailed. Cardin's gift can be celebrated by all readers." - T.M. Wright, author of Bone Soup and A Manhattan Ghost Story
On February 1st I launched a new blog: Demon Muse. Its dedicated focus is the daimonic model of creativity and the practical applications of this model for enhancing literary and other artistic pursuits. The first three posts give the flavor: "Welcome to Demon Muse," "The Daimonic Insight: Creativity Is a Force Separate from You," and "Steven Pressfield and Seth Godin: Artists and Innovators vs. The New Dark Age." I invite you to click through, read the About page and other material to orient yourself, and subscribe to RSS or email updates if you like what you see. Also feel free to get in touch with me via the blog's Contact page if you're a writer, musician, or other artist who shares my interest in the daimon/muse/personal genius and you'd like to pitch a guest post to me.
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"In Dark Awakenings, Cardin proves himself to be an adept in the fullest sense of the word. To both the morbid and the cosmically minded, who may be one and the same, he delivers his visions and nightmares in a master's prose. In the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft, Cardin's accomplishments as a writer are paralleled by his expertise as a literary critic and theorist, as readers can witness in this volume. His analyses of supernatual horror and its practitioners are also dark awakenings in the dual manner of his stories, with one eye on the black abyss and the other on an enlightened transcendence without denomination. Again, this quality of Cardin's work can be seen in the writings of Poe and Lovecraft, two other felicitous freaks who merged the antagonistisms of their imagination into a chimera as awful as it is awe-striking."
– Thomas Ligotti
MORE PRAISE
"Cardin ranks among the foremost authors of contemporary American horror." – Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence & Other Stories
"It’s a bold writer who, in this day and age, tries to make modern horror fiction out of theology, but Cardin pulls it off.” – Darrell Schweitzer, editor, critic, author of Living with the Dead
 "Matt Cardin's horror stories are the real thing: works that are committed to exploring what is irremediably strange and terrible in human existence." – Thomas Ligotti, author of Teatro Grottesco and The Nightmare Factory
"Matt Cardin is the most underrated horror writer in America." – Tim Lebbon, author of Hush and 30 Days of Night (novelization)
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