My Life In Horror Volume One
Hardback edition
Published on 11. June 2020
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-1-912578-97-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Warning: This book is almost impossible to put down." - Tracy Fahey, Author: The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
Just how much are we shaped by the entertainment that scares us?
Author, blogger, podcaster and lifelong fan of genre Kit Power sets out to answer that question, with a collection of essays that take on the works - and events - that scarred him as a child and young adult. Stephen King's IT. Hellraiser. The Thing. The Wasp Factory. Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds. Hillsborough. Welding childhood recollection with adult insight and analysis, Power digs deep into his personal reactions and feelings as he attempts to understand his continued fascination with the genre - and the emotion - of Horror.
Collecting the first three years of his work for the 12-time BFS nominated review site Gingernuts Of Horror, with each essay revised and expanded, My Life In Horror Volume One represents one fan's journey through genre - an autobiography via the medium of pop culture.
"If you want to mainline someone's utter love and immersion in books, movies and music, with beautifully honest reflections on life, the world, and everything, look no further." Stephen Volk, Screenwriter and Author
"My Life In Horror is a loving, enthusiastic, insightful and compulsive read for any fan of the genre. I fully recommend it." - Brian Keene, Horror Grandmaster
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912578-97-9 (9781912578979)
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Person
Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, 'GodBomb!', and a novella collection 'Breaking Point', two short story collections ('A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power' and 'Voices') and novellas 'The Finite' and 'A Song For The End'. His non-fiction work includes a limited edition hardback on the Ken Russell/The Who movie 'Tommy' (from PS Publishing) and regular posts at Gingernuts of Horror (the series you've just read, and also a first-read response series to the work of Brian Keene). In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - as one third of the apparently indescribable fortnightly Discord show Writeopolis(@Writeopolis) , one half of What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Daniel Lea, and a Patreon exclusive show on the Sherlock Holmes canon with the legendary Jack Graham and Daniel Harper. For monthly updates on what he's getting up to, sign up to his newsletter at: https://powertothepoeple.substack.com/For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower .