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Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals

By: Bitter Karella
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  • Each week, a group of storytellers gathers around a campfire. There's world-weary club MC Edgar Allan Poe, nerd dad Stephen King, violent goth Mary Shelley, squid-obsessed wimp HP Lovecraft, and others. A comedy-horror semi-anthology adapted from Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction.
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  • Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 1 trailer

    Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 1 trailer
    Sep 4 2023

    Living and dead horror authors tell scary stories round the campfire in "Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals", an upcoming audio adaptation of Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated comedy-horror microfiction. Full episodes start releasing on October 31, 2023, with an early premier and cast chat streaming on Twitch on Sunday October 29th. For more information, see https://midnightpals.com

    CAST, in order of appearance:

    • EDGAR ALLAN POE – Rodrigo Borges
    • ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON – Dexter Howard
    • HP LOVECRAFT – Robin Johnson
    • BRAM STOKER – Joel A.S. Butler
    • JONATHAN HARKER – Thaddeus Strange
    • DRACULA – Rodrigo Borges
    • PATRICIA HIGHSMITH – Kate Davoli
    • STEPHEN KING – Jason Robison
    • MARY SHELLEY – Rebecca D'Souza
    • VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN – Dominic Rye
    • DEAN KOONTZ – Wren Montgomery
    • CLIVE BARKER – Sister Indica
    • SHE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED – Hailey Piper

    Trailer edited by Robin Johnson using material from episodes written by Bitter Karella and Robin Johnson.

    Find the Midnight Pals at midnightpals.com or on twitter at @midnight_pals. Subscribe to the podcast at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast site/app of choice.

    A transcript of this trailer is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/season-1-trailer/transcript

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    1 min
  • Midnight Snacks: 11 teaser mini-episodes

    Midnight Snacks: 11 teaser mini-episodes
    Oct 23 2023
    The main characters of Midnight Pals, plus a few regular visitors to the campfire, introduce themselves with a series of short skits based on their most popular works. A medley of midnight-snack size tales from Stephen King, Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe and more.This is a consolidation of the first eleven short ‘teaser’ mini-episodes that were released prior to season 1. We’ve done this to clean up our feed and make it easier for new listeners to navigate to the full episodes, which will continue to be released weekly on Tuesdays throughout the season. Content notes: swearing, sexual references, raised voices, threats of violence, animal death, gory noises, discussion of racismCAST Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON Mary Shelley — REBECCA D’SOUZA HP Lovecraft/Arthur Conan Doyle — ROBIN JOHNSON Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERRY Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES with Anne Rice — JESSICA BERSON Roger Corman — BITTER KARELLA Robert Louis Stevenson — DEXTER HOWARD Shirley Jackson — RAYNA MONTGOMERY The script was written by Robin Johnson, based on tweets by Bitter Karella. Production and music by Robin Johnson. Daisy McNamara was an audio consultant. Liselle Nic Giollabháin was a production assistant. TIME STAMPS 00:00 — Stephen King (The Tale of the Small Town with a Spooky Secret) 00:55 — Mary Shelley (The Tale of the Hot Monster) Inspired by Frankenstein, available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445; also see our full episode The Tale of the Frankenstein 01:45 — HP Lovecraft (The Tale of the Indescribable Eldritch Abomination) Lovecraft’s works are available at https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/ 02:30 — Dean Koontz 03:10 — Clive Barker (The Tale of the Horny Ghost) 03:55 — Edgar Allan Poe (The Tale of the Black Cat) Poe’s The Black Cat is included in his collected works at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2148 05:00 — Anne Rice (The Tale of the Sad Vampire and the Devil) Inspired by Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series 06:15 — Roger Corman Read about Roger Corman’s “Edgar Allan Poe’s The Haunted Palace” (1961) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace 08:05 — Robert Louis Stevenson (The Tale of the Bottle Imp) The Bottle Imp is included in Stevenson’s collection Island Nights’ Entertainments, available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/329 09:35 — Arthur Conan Doyle (The Tale of Sherlock Holmes) Doyle’s works, including many stories of Sherlock Holmes stories as well as those of Professor Challenger, are available at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69 11:00 — Shirley Jackson (The Tale of the Haunted House) Inspired by Jackson’s The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals is created by Bitter Karella © All characters are fictitious, especially the real ones. Subscribe to Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Cast or wherever you find podcasts. If you are enjoying the show, please leave us a rating or a review. Find us at midnightpals.com
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    16 mins
  • Midnight Snack: The Tale of the Torture Tower

    Midnight Snack: The Tale of the Torture Tower
    Oct 24 2023

    It's Bram Stoker's turn at the campfire and he's brought a new story, "The Tale of The—" oh dear, we might have to do something about that title.

    Content notes: Discussion of racism; human and animal death; discussion of violence and torture.

    Season 1 Premiere: Our first full episode, The Tale of the Frankenstein, will release on our podcast feed on Tuesday 31st October— but there will also be a special early streamed premiere and open hangout with the cast and crew on Sunday 29th October at 5PM GMT / 1PM Eastern / 10AM Pacific. Join us on Rodrigo "Poe" Borges's twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/TheCommanderRod

    CAST:

    • BRAM STOKER – Joel A.S. Butler
    • EDGAR ALLAN POE — Rodrigo Borges
    • CLIVE BARKER — Sister Indica
    • HP LOVECRAFT – Robin Johnson
    • MARY SHELLEY – Rebecca D'Souza
    • STEPHEN KING – Jason Robinson
    • DEAN KOONTZ — Wren Montgomery

    Script, production and music by Robin Johnson, loosely adapted from The Sq**w by Bram Stoker. The Midnight Pals is created by Bitter Karella. All characters are fictitious, especially the real ones.

    About the story: Bram Stoker's unfortunately named short story The Sq**w was included in his posthumously published short story collection Dracula's Guest, which can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10150 (CN for explicit racism, torture, gore, and killing of humans and animals.) In adaptations it has been variously renamed Dungeon of Horror, Cat's Cradle and The Torture Tower.

    HP Lovecraft's childhood cat was named either what you're thinking, or something worse.

    Find the Midnight Pals at midnightpals.com on bluesky at @midnightpals.bsky.social or on twitter at @midnight_pals. Subscribe to Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals now at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcast site/app of choice.

    A transcript of this teaser is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/teaser-12-bram-stoker/transcript
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More! More! Give us more!

This series makes my day and I need more! I wanna see these idiots keep getting into shenanigans and telling their stories in great ways!

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Best thing I've heard since we're alive!

Absolutely my new favorite! Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys horror and comedy. Lots of clever references, and a little cheesy but in a good way. Just hope we get more like this. It felt really fresh and unique. The voice acting is perfect. I almost thought it was Stephen King in the first episode. lol

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