KUDOS

During the production of Carpe Noctem Magazine, I served as Head Writer and Creative Director. A lot of nice people said an awful lot of nice things about the work we did. I include those nice things here to make me feel important.

 

"[Cabal] is a book about the poetry of the monstrous. It's a book about...giving up normality. I mean, I read your magazine. I know there is no lack of comprehension about this. I'm telling you something that you guys virtually embody."
- Clive Barker

"Carpe Noctem combines an elegant graphic style with an intelligent, respectful look at our otherwise disreputable genre. I eagerly anticipate the next issue"
- Mick Garris, director ABC TV's The Shining & The Stand

"A sharp, entertaining, and beautiful journal for those of us in the business of making visual, verbal, or sonic horror. Carnell's interviews are respectful and knowledgeable and can provide an introduction to the other craftsmen in the industry who might otherwise be invisible and/or impossible to find."
- Diamanda Galas, vocalist/author

"The production quality of this magazine is top-notch... Carnell conducts some of the most interesting, in-depth interviews that I have read in a long time."
- Writer's Market Webzine

"A shining dark light in the world of Goth and horror entertainment." -Anthony Timpone, Editor Fangoria Magazine

”Carpe Noctem provides an invaluable venue for the work of artists that I admire tremendously such as Cliff Nielsen, Miran Kim and others whom I feel are yet not as recognized as they deserve to be. Maintaining its own vision, defining a style that transcends mediums, Carpe Noctem is a true spawn of the new fin de sicle, a magazine for the millennium.”
- Jose Villarubia, artist Veils

"What else can you say about a magazine that interviews all the people I'm interested in other than, ‘Where can I get more?’" - Robh Ruppel, artist

“I think Carpe Noctem is a terrific magazine. The interviews, the opinions, and the art are very fine. It's the kind of magazine that makes you feel you ought to be reading it by moonlight at the side of your ivy-crusted marble vault.”
- Neil Gaiman, author Sandman, Neverwhere, Stardust

”Carpe Noctem - the essential fin de siecle art and style magazine. Sexy and dangerous. Black silk, cold steel and red velvet. Divine decadence.”
- Bryan Talbot, writer/artist Tale of One Bad Rat, Luther Arkwright, Heart of Empire

"The best magazine around to reach the Vertigo target audience."
- Martha Thomases, DC Vertigo

"This magazine is a feast for the eye and the intellect. I recommend it to all of you out there with the guts to seize the night..."
- SP Somtow, author, Vampire Junction

"Carpe Noctem is the dark highlight in my magazine stack!"
- Jill Thompson, artist, writer Scary Godmother

"Carpe Noctem does indeed 'seize the night,' as well as all its beauty and mystery, for those who love it and welcome it. I never miss an issue."
- Michael Marano, author of Dawn Song

"Carpe Noctem Magazine invigorates the soul, pulls at your fears like a stretched rubber band in the dark and plays ‘tattle tale’ on your conscience."
- Rikki Rockett, Poison

”When I want to find out what the other darklings are doing I sink into the depths of Carpe Noctem."
-brom, Painter, Illustrator

"Eclectic and visually invigorating, there's no better way to seize the aesthetics of darkness than Carpe Noctem magazine..."
- Philip Nutman, author of Wet Work and Full Throttle

”Carpe Noctem has to be the best magazine of its kind. No shaded corner of Gothic culture is unexplored, and its creative and imaginative format, not to mention its high quality production, is a delight to the eye.”
- Storm Constantine, author, Stalking Tender Prey

"Carpe Noctem is a dark jewel of pleasure shining provocatively in the often lusterless of realm of magazines."
- Paula Guran, Dark Echo

"For my money - well, at least until I began receiving contributor's copies - Carpe Noctem became, very soon after its inception, the premier magazine for those inclined toward an art-of-darkness aesthetic. It doesn't substitute attitude for substance, it dares to have a sense of humor....and while it's informed and in-depth enough about the scenes and creators it covers so as not to alienate purists, readers of more casual interest (providing they show up with that all-important open mind) shouldn't feel on the outside looking in. Whereas certain other publications' main goal seems to be gother-than-thou, Carpe Noctem doesn't care if you have more colours than black in your closet....just what's in your head and heart."
- Brian Hodge, author of Falling Idols and Wild Horses