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"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
Industry Reviews
"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
"You'll find a seemingly diverse range of topics here, but at the heart of it all is horror, and there's a lot of heart. Kit Power shows you his on every intimate page. I loved it." - Ray Cluley, Author: Probably Monsters
"Warning: This book is almost impossible to put down." - Tracy Fahey, Author: The Unheimlich Manoeuvre
"Kit Power's My Life In Horror is bursting with passion and near-obsessive insight." - Chris Hall, DLS Review
"A delight and loads of fun, My Life In Horror speaks to the young horror fan in all of us, and goes a long way to explaining why our love of genre is a lifelong affair" - John Llewellyn Probert, Author and critic.
"Kit Power's journey into the heart of Horror isn't Charles Marlow travelling up the congo, it's a journey into the very essence of the genre itself. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in what makes its servants tick" - Johnny Mains, Editor
"Kit Power is a punk rocker, and My Life In Horror Volume I sees him spitting bile at society and celebrating the underdog in a collection of hugely entertaining essays." - JR Park, Author: Mad Dog
"Kit Power's enthusiasm for his wide-ranging subjects is infectious, he has an enviable memory, and he captures magnificently the joy and rage of adolescence." - Tim Major, Author: Snakeskins
"Heartfelt, funny, incisive, and at times profoundly moving, My Life In Horror shows why the genre, and by extension, the Arts in general, are so important to our lives." - Neil Snowdon, Editor: Electric Dreamhouse Press
"Kit Power is an astonishingly perceptive, enthusiastic and articulate horror critic whose work is as courageously self-aware as it is welcoming." - Alasdair Stewart, Host: PseudoPod, Hostus Mostus: The Full Lid (BFS and Hugo award finalist)
"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
Foreword by Jim Mcleod
IT – The Book That Made Me
RoboCop – The Film That Made Me
Appetite For Destruction – The Album That Made Me
Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds – Minds Immeasurably Superior To Ours
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Alive, But Like A Nightmare
Feed the World
Tommy – Sickness Will Surely Take The Mind
Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons – It Is Your Favourite Planet, After All
Gremlins – Someday, You May Be Ready
Scott (absent friends 1) – Old Man, Why Do You Smoke?
The Thing – Now It’s Time To Show You What I Already Know
Hillsborough – A Tanked Up Mob
The Headless Children – This Monster That We Call The Earth Is Bleeding
My Brief Career As An Eleven-Year-Old Slave Trader
Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter – Assume An Attitude
The Lost Boys – Kill Your Brother, You’ll Feel Better
Queen: Greatest Hits II – Show Yourself, Destroy Our Fears, Release Your Mask
The Wasp Factory – It’s Just A Phase I Was Going Through
Hellraiser – We Have Such Sights To Show You
Parents – Leftovers To Be
Wild At Heart – You Look Like A Clown In That Stupid Jacket
Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Of Wolf And Man
Endless, Nameless – Keep It Up Son, Take A Look At What You Could Have Won
Sleepers – Give Me A Chance To Apologise, Okay?
Last House on the Left – Why Don’t You Lie Back And Enjoy Being Inferior?
Eagles Of Death Metal/Queen at Hyde Park – Our Life In Horror
On Writing – Write What Scares You
Live: F@*k Like A Suicide – Hey, Fuckers!
A Death in the Family – I Happen To Be Crazy. Not Stupid.
Afterword – What have we learned?
ISBN: 9781912578979
ISBN-10: 1912578972
Published: 11th June 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 230
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.75
Weight (kg): 0.51
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