Welcome to Series 4! We're back with a fresh run in 2023. And we're kicking off by welcoming back the wonderful Kit Power, to talk to me about his new essay collection, My Life in Horror Volume II! Join us as we talk about whether the Nightmare on Elm St movies ever lived up to their potential, whether Bruce Springsteen is a horror writer, why Superman III is utterly terrifying, and much much more!
0.00 Intro
0.08 pt 1 - General chat about My Life in Horror Volume II
pt 2 - A closer look at some of the essays
0.47 I Had A Job, I Had A Girl (Born in the USA)
1.03 You've Been on my Nerves for a Long Time (Superman III)
1.24 Obnoxious, Self-Righteous Sadists (Smoking)
1.43 If Only There Is Something We Could Have Done (XCOM)
2.01 El Eye Vee, Ee Are Pee, Double Oh El (Cracker)
2.25 We Will Bury You (Confessions of a Reluctant Barman)
You can buy Kit's new book here via Amazon, either in physical form or for Kindle (and Volume I here), or you can of course get your local bookshop or library (at least in the UK) to order it. Please do - it's a real experience!
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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 and 2 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 four previous episodes of The EscapeGoat Podcast, discussing each part of the original UK House of Cards Trilogy in turn and then the Stephen King short story collection Skeleton Crew. Check them out!
All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.
NOTES
Kit actually recorded an episode of Jack Graham's Shabcast back in early 2020, to promote and discuss Volume I of MLiH - you can listen to that episode here (and should!)
The music at the beginning of this EscapeGoat episode is a clip from a peculiar rights-challenged Hip Hop oddity - if you're not aware of it, the video can be viewed here.
