Journals, Volume 2: 2002–2022

“A weird fiction authority’s searching,
incisive journals of this millennium.”
—Booklife by Publishers Weekly

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About the book

In this second volume of his journals, Matt Cardin continues his ruminations on the subjects he has made his own—the theory and practice of weird fiction, the complexities of religious belief, and the relation between these two seemingly disparate realms. We find fascinating synopses of stories written and unwritten; reflections on films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious to Chariots of Fire; accounts of bizarre dreams that have plagued the author; analyses of such writers as Thomas Ligotti (whose work Cardin has studied in great detail), Bruno Schulz, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and many others; and intimate glimpses into the fluctuations in Cardin’s personal life. Throughout, the author brings an incisive sensibility to the problems of life, thought, and feeling in the modern world.

Praise

“This heady second volume of the journals of Cardin, the writer of and expert on weird/cosmic horror fiction, charts two decades of thinking, searching, reading and feeling of matters artistic, theological, and philosophical. It also captures, with pained observations and many evocative and unsettling dreams and story ideas ripped straight from the unconscious, moments of uncertainty and even rage, as the world Cardin (To Rouse Leviathan) grew up in dissolved into the anxious post-truth mess we all live in now. . . . A weird fiction authority’s searching, incisive journals of this millennium.”
— Booklife by Publishers Weekly

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