Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Neil Gaiman wrote, "If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water." Flame Tree Publishing underwrites this claim with their recent publication, The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror. The book is a veritable gazetteer of these two cities in the heartland of the imaginal world. Writer and scholar Matt Cardin, founding editor of the marvellous Teeming Brain (www.teemingbrain.com), wrote a chapter for the book focusing on the books and films of the Sixties and Seventies. In this episode, he joins JF and Phil to discuss the kinship of horror and fantasy, the modern ghettoization of mythopoeic art, the prophetic reach of speculative fiction, and the "cauldron of cultural transformation" that was the Sixties and Seventies.
Header Image by Moralist, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Candles.jpg)REFERENCES
The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror (https://www.flametreepublishing.com/The-Astounding-Illustrated-History-of-Fantasy-&-Horror-ISBN-9781786648037.html)
Matt Cardin's website (http://www.mattcardin.com)The Teeming Brain (http://www.teemingbrain.com)
American literary critic S. T. Joshi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._T._Joshi)British writer and scholar Roger Luckhurst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Luckhurst)
Neil Gaiman, introduction to The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death (https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Cycle-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/0345384210)The concept of "folk psychology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_psychology)"H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dq.aspx)
H. P. Lovecraft, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tgsk.aspx)James Curcio, Masks: Bowie and the Artists of Artifice (http://www.jamescurcio.com/post/182128171068/masks-bowie-and-artists-of-artifice-modern) (forthcoming)
American author Thomas Ligotti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti)British author Arthur Machen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Machen)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein)Ian McEwen, Enduring Love (https://www.amazon.com/Enduring-Love-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/0385494149)
Weird Studies, Episode 36: On Hyperstition (https://www.weirdstudies.com/36)J. R. R. Tolkien, [The Silmarillion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSilmarillion)_Terry Brooks, [The Sword of Shannara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheSwordofShannara)_Stephen R. Donaldson, [The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheChroniclesofThomasCovenant)[Night of the Living Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NightoftheLivingDead) (George A. Romero, 1968)The Lord of the Rings animated film (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
Lloyd Alexander, [The Chronicles of Prydain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheChroniclesofPrydain)_
Madeleine L'Engle, [A Wrinkle in Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWrinkleinTime)_
The Call of Cthulhu Role-Playing Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)) (Chaosium)Ray Bradbury, [Something Wicked This Way Comes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SomethingWickedThisWayComes)Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
William Irwin Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Irwin_Thompson), At the Edge of HistoryInterview (https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/george-clayton-johnson) with Twilight Zone luminary George Clayton Johnson
[The Wicker Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheWickerMan) (Robin Hardy, 1973)
[The Omen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheOmen)_ (Richard Donner, 1976)
Stephen King, [Salem's Lot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Salem%27sLot)_
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