Our latest episode - and our longest ever - in which I welcome back Kit, and we go deep on the 1985 Stephen King horror short story collection Skeleton Crew. And get pretty dark. After 20 mins at the start about Die Hard 2, naturally. Enjoy!
0.00 Introduction/chat about Die Hard 2
0.19 Our backgrounds with short fiction and Stephen King
1.03 The Mist
1.48 Here There Be Tygers
2.01 Milkman (#1 and #2)
2.11 Gramma
2.35 Word Processor of the Gods
3.06 The Jaunt
3.31 Survivor Type
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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’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power, What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea, and a Patreon exclusive show on the Sherlock Holmes canon with Jack Graham. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower. He has also been on three episodes of The EscapeGoat Podcast, discussing each part of the original UK House of Cards Trilogy.
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Kit has put out a fair bit in both written and recorded form about King and his works. A few highlights and perhaps the ones most relevant to this podcast include these two pieces (here and here) about The Mist (2007), and these two chats (1 and 2) about It (book and film) with George Daniel Lea. Talking of other people who have featured on this podcast, back in 2016 (just before the US Presidential Election) Kit and Jack Graham got together on The Shabcast to chat about the two Stephen King adaptations The Dead Zone and The Running Man. A few years later, they got together again to talk about Kit's novella The Finite , which comes up in our episode here. All very worth a listen, in my view.
