Our Conversations With The Dreaming Mind
Industrial Music's Psychedelic Prophet: Delving into cEvin Key's Visionary Soundscape
Where so much of electronic music seems to have been chasing its tail for the last twenty-odd years, the sound of cEvin Key still resonates as distinctively and dangerously as when Skinny Puppy crushed out what became the Back & Forth demos nearly forty years ago.
Robots with humor and soul? Rudy Rucker thinks so in groundbreaking transreal fiction
Philip K. Dick award-winning author, mathematician, computer scientist, great-great-great grandson of Georg Friedrich Hegel—is properly revered as a founding father of the cyberpunk movement, but his exuberant mutant style never fit into any category but its own.
Cosmic horror writer Scott R. Jones delves into R'lyehian spirituality and predator with perfect camouflage
Honestly, I think "the issues" remain resonant today, for what are obvious reasons if you've paid any attention to the current state of the world.
Horror author Jessica McHugh spooks outdated tropes, encourages fun writing, and teases new works.
We’ve made ourselves vulnerable, which is both wonderful and horrifying, and this new openness grants horror fiction more shades and levels than ever before. From doxxing and swatting to shit-slicked forums where people are convinced a shadow government is using celebrity lizard people to harvest adrenochrome from aborted babies...or some crazy nonsense...we are surrounded by creepy subgenres begging to be explored.
Jeffery Thomas on Writing Freddy Krueger, the Appeal of Weird Fiction, and Vietnamese Culture
…I don’t expect a vast wave of mass market weird fiction books, any more than I’d expect the film of VanderMeer’s Annihilation to inspire a wave of high-profile, highly-weird movies. Idiosyncratic, strange and daring and hard to classify books, movies, and TV shows will hopefully continue to appear and in larger numbers, based on past successes, but for every Twin Peaks: The Return there will always be countless new superhero movies.
Nathan Carson on Cosmic Horror, Lovecraftian Mythos, and the Music that Haunts Him
Explore the eerie music that inspires Nathan Carson's cosmic horror writing in this interview. From gothic punk bands to Belgian chamber-prog, discover the unique properties of the Cthulhu Mythos that keep Carson coming back to the genre, and what would actually drive him insane, despite a childhood steeped in horror.
Horror author Christine Morgan talks about surviving cancer and her love for all things Viking and Bizarro
Vikings proved to be the perfect storm of all those subjects. Plus, I have a shameless love for over the top purple prose, gory descriptions, wordcraft like alliteration and assonance and kennings.