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The Living Dark

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Creativity, consciousness, religion, horror, culture, and the examined writing life.

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About Matt Cardin

Author of Writing at the Wellspring, To Rouse Leviathan, What the Daemon Said, and others. โ€œ[An] intimate journey into the mystery of creativity and spirit" (BookLife). "[A] thinking-man's book of the macabre" (Publishers Weekly).

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