The Living Dark
Matt CardinCreativity, consciousness, religion, horror, culture, and the examined writing life
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 201 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 14 days ago |
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The Living Dark Is Ending (and Coming Home)
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Dear Living Dark readers,
I’m writing today with a special announcement about the future of this newsletter, or rather, about the future of the creative impulse that originally gave rise to it, and how...
Five-Year Plans and Other Shadows Up Ahead
Dear Living Dark reader,
Yesterday, a brief Note that I had posted here at Substack began insisting that it wanted to be a poem. This kind of thing—poetry, I mean—happens to me approximately once per lifetime, as if the wrong kind of muse...
Let the Book Find Its Way
Dear Living Dark reader,
I’m currently reading and greatly enjoying Natalie Goldberg’s Writing on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice. One thing I especially appreciate is the way the book lets itself breathe. It opens with what might str...
Four Years Into Forever
Dear Living Dark reader,
Across journalism, criticism, creative writing, and especially among compulsive LinkedIn posters, writers are converging on a set of choices that implicitly resist the trappings of AI-generated prose.
—Emma Madd...
Cosmic Horror Is a Zen Koan
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Dear Living Dark reader,
The paragraphs below all came out unexpectedly when I started writing this morning, based on whatever factors were at work in my writer’s mind without my being aware of them on...
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I'm the author of To Rouse Leviathan, Writing at the Wellspring, and other books on horror, creativity, and religion. My newsletter has left Substack; find it and the rest of my work at https://mattcardin.com.
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