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The Kingcast

145: Billy Summers with Matt Braunger

The Kingcast

FANGORIA Podcast Network

Tv & Film

4.8990 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Billy Summers is a damn good hitman out on his final job, so of course things go wrong. Today's episode takes a look at one of Stephen King's more recent books that is soon to be adapted by JJ Abrams and Ed Zwick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Vespi here once again flying solo for today's ad reads

0:05.0

Please if you will remove your hats and bow your heads for a moment of silence for our absent pop-pop-pop-wampler who was struck down in the prime of his youth by COVID,

0:14.8

which he caught while having too much fun at Fantastic Fest this past weekend.

0:18.6

So please, a moment of silence.

0:19.8

I mean, he's not dead or anything, but thank you for that moment of silence anyway

0:25.1

he'll be back in full swing next week unless he catches a malaria or something else

0:29.1

new but in the meantime I want to tell you about a couple of sponsors. It's going to be a little top heavy this episode.

0:34.4

We don't have any mid-roll ad reads, but we got a couple here to tell you about before we get

0:38.1

rolling with the show, and I'm going to do just that.

0:42.1

So first up is Leach, the debut novel from Hyron Ennis. Here's what I know about this

0:47.3

rad sounding book. Leach is a mashup of Gothic fiction, science fiction, and horror.

0:53.1

It has one of the most unique protagonists

0:55.3

in recent science fiction,

0:56.7

and has been called The Thing,

0:57.8

but from The Thing's Point of View.

1:00.1

This story was written for genre fans of all sorts

1:02.3

from fans of Cronenberg de Brante and is set in a post post post-apocalyptic world in a creepy castle ruled by disgusting aristocrats and a multi-mind multi-bodied doctor at war with a parasite.

1:15.0

Tell me that doesn't sound cool as hell.

1:17.0

Sci-Fi and horror writer Peter Watt says,

1:19.0

if you ever wondered what would happen if David Cronenberg and Edgar Allan Poe bumped into each other at the same

1:24.0

parasitological conference? Well, here's your answer.

1:27.2

Meet the cure for the human disease Leach by Hyron Ennis, wherever you get your books.

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