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.

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.

…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.

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.