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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.

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REFERENCES

The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy and Horror
\\nMatt Cardin\'s website
\\nThe Teeming Brain

American literary critic S. T. Joshi
\\nBritish writer and scholar Roger Luckhurst
\\nNeil Gaiman, introduction to The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
\\nThe concept of "folk psychology"
\\nH. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath"
\\nH. P. Lovecraft, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key"
\\nJames Curcio, Masks: Bowie and the Artists of Artifice (forthcoming)
\\nAmerican author Thomas Ligotti
\\nBritish author Arthur Machen
\\nMary Shelley, Frankenstein
\\nIan McEwen, Enduring Love
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 36: On Hyperstition
\\nJ. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
\\nTerry Brooks, The Sword of Shannara
\\nStephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
\\nNight of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
\\nThe Lord of the Rings animated film (Ralph Bakshi, 1978)
\\nLloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain
\\nMadeleine L\'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
\\nThe Call of Cthulhu Role-Playing Game (Chaosium)
\\nRay Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
\\nInvasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
\\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, At the Edge of History
\\nInterview with Twilight Zone luminary George Clayton Johnson
\\nThe Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
\\nThe Omen (Richard Donner, 1976)
\\nStephen King, Salem\'s Lot

Special Guest: Matt Cardin.