Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 1 trailer

Episode Summary

Living and dead horror authors tell scary stories round the campfire in "Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals", an audio adaptation of Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated comedy-horror microfiction.

Episode Notes

Living and dead horror authors tell scary stories round the campfire in "Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals", a hilarious audio adaptation of Bitter Karella's 3x Hugo-nominated comedy-horror microfiction. 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, or on bluesky at @midnightpals.bsky.social. 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 

Episode Transcription

[SPOOKY MUSIC PLAYS THROUGHOUT TRAILER]

EDGAR ALLAN POE (VOICEOVER): We're called the Midnight Society.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Society...

HP LOVECRAFT: ...I call this story...

BRAM STOKER: ...The Tale of Dracula!

JONATHAN HARKER (KEANU REEVES IMPRESSION): I'm, like, Jonathan Harker, from London.

DRACULA: Please enter my foreboding castle.

HARKER: Thanks, dude!

POE (V/O): Each week we gather around this campfire to tell our strange and scary tales.

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH: The Tale of the Strangers on a Train.

STEPHEN KING: Look here, Patricia, I want those gosh-darn snails off my gosh-darn train!

MARY SHELLEY: The Tale of the Frankenstein.

[SOUND OF ELECTRICAL SPARKS. GRUNTING]

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN: My Frankenstein is ALIVE!!!

[APPLAUSE]

KING: Frankenstein's Monster, you mean?

SHELLEY: Whose [BLEEP]in' story is this?

DEAN KOONTZ: ...and the skeleton eats people!!

KING: Very good, Dean!

CLIVE BARKER: The Tale of the Nightbreed. Or as it was known on its European release, The Tale of the Gay Monsters who Like to [BLEEP]

POE: Clive

ANNOUNCER (V/O): Find Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals wherever you find podcasts, or follow us at midnightpals.com

[MYSTERIOUS CHANTING]

CREEPY FEMALE VOICE: Hello, children!