As previously stated, I’ll be heading to ArmadilloCon 31 this Friday through Saturday, where, in addition to speaking on panels and reading from my work — regarding which, I think I’ll pick either “Blackbrain Dwarf,” the revised “Teeth,” or “The God of Foulness” — I’ll distribute the following flyer for Dark Awakenings.
It contains freshly minted blurbs from Thomas Ligotti and Laird Barron, and was designed by the always-amazing Jason Van Hollander, who also created the book’s cover. I figured I’d go ahead and share it with my Teeming Brain readers, on the likely chance that most of you won’t make it to Austin this weekend.
Here’s what the blurbs say (since they’re probably too small to read in the provided image):
“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 supernatural 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
“Matt Cardin channels visions of dark, maniacal intensity. His otherworldly divinations will have you lying awake in the dark, counting stars in that most pitiless gulf that yawns above us all. A master of terror and dread, he ranks among the foremost authors of contemporary American horror.” — Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence & Other Stories
looking forward to this