An Interview With Nick Mamatas
Nick Mamatas Talks About ‘120 Murders’ And More!
The “Nostalgia Pendulum” theory, coined by Patrick Metzger in 2017, asserts that pop culture revolves in a thirty year cycle. This is why the 2010s came to be dominated by numerous imitations of 80s aesthetics. Look no further than Stranger Things, for example.
If this theory is to be believed then our current decade will surely come to be defined by nostalgia for the 90s, otherwise known as the Alternative Era. You don’t have to look very far to see that this phenomenon is already well under way. Next time you’re in a crowded place, just count how many Nirvana t-shirts you see.
Into this zeitgeist comes 120 Murders, a collection of dark fiction developed by Nick Mamatas which serves as a love letter to the alternative music genre of the mid 80s and 90s.
I spoke to Nick via Zoom in June about the upcoming anthology.
