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The Kingcast

80: Misery with Paul Tremblay

The Kingcast

FANGORIA Podcast Network

Tv & Film

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

What would you prefer? Annie wielding an axe (like in the book) or a sledgehammer (like in the movie)? Why was this book so cathartic for the author to write? And why the hell do so many Stephen King characters drink Pepsi?

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0:00.0

Today's episode is brought to you by Nightfire, publisher of The Living Dead by George A. Romero and New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus.

0:09.2

That is now available in paperback.

0:12.0

Yeah, and some eagle-eared listeners might remember that Daniel Kraus came on the

0:16.4

show a while back and talked about his working relationship with George Romero and it's over up on our Patreon if you haven't heard it.

0:25.0

Yeah, Daniel's a good guy. I'm happy to be promoting his book on the show today and for those who aren't familiar, George A Romero invented the modern zombie with the

0:34.3

Night of the Living Dead, but often felt hemmed in by the constraints of filmmaking.

0:37.8

Set in the present day, the living dead is an entirely new tale, the story of the

0:41.9

zombie plague as George A Romero wanted to tell it.

0:45.2

Joe Hill calls the living dead a horror landmark, while the Washington Post calls it

0:50.0

the definitive account of the zombie apocalypse.

0:52.4

Read the living dead by George A. Romero and our friend Daniel Krause,

0:56.4

available now in paperback wherever terrifying books are sold.

1:00.1

You can probably also buy it where non-terifying books are sold.

1:03.7

Yeah, I hope so that seemed to be limiting their audience if they only sold it where

1:07.5

terrifying books are sold because in my mind that's like the Necronomicon and

1:10.4

shit that'll like some humans.

1:11.9

It's kind of an objective thing.

1:14.0

Clifford the big red dog in there too somewhere, you know, think of the kids.

1:17.0

You know what else you can find at some bookstore, Scott Garfield?

1:20.0

Nope, that's not what I was thinking of.

1:22.0

I was thinking of, our old standby, Fangoria magazine.

1:24.6

Ah, yes.

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