It's HP Lovecraft's turn to be storyteller, chilling the Midnight Pals with his famous brand of cosmic horror inspired by his lifelong night terrors and existential dread of anything foreign.
It's HP Lovecraft's turn to be storyteller in our fourth teaser trailer. Howard chills the Midnight Pals with his famous brand of cosmic horror, inspired by his lifelong night terrors and existential dread of anything foreign. Contains NSFW language.
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Script adapted by Robin Johnson from tweets by Bitter Karella. Thanks to Eve Morris and Daisy McNamara.
Find the Midnight Pals on twitter at @midnight_pals.
A transcript of this trailer is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/teaser-04-hp-lovecraft/transcript
[CLOCK CHIMING, SPOOKY MUSIC]
ANNOUNCER: Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals, created by Bitter Karella.
[MUSIC PLAYS OUT. SOUND OF A CAMPFIRE IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT]
EDGAR ALLAN POE: Tonight’s story will be told by (SIGH) H. P. Lovecraft. Howard?
HP LOVECRAFT: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story... [SPARKLE] "The Tale of the Dusky Foreigner".
POE: No! Howard.
LOVECRAFT: Uh... I mean "The Indescribable Eldritch Abomination".
STEPHEN KING: Can you describe it?
LOVECRAFT: Oh yeah, it looked uh... spooky. (PAUSE) Like an Italian.
BARKER: Eww...
KING: Howard.
POE: Howard!
MARY SHELLEY: Shut the fuck up, Howard.
[MUSIC]
ANNOUNCER: Based on the Hugo-nominated microfiction, Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals is coming late 2023 to wherever you find podcasts. Follow the Pals on twitter at @midnight_pals.