Edgar Allan Poe tells the Midnight Pals "The Tale of the Black Cat".
Edgar Allan Poe tells the Midnight Pals "The Tale of the Black Cat", in the sixth teaser for the upcoming audio adaptation of Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals.
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Script by Robin Johnson, including material adapted from tweets by Bitter Karella. Music by Robin Johnson.
Find the Midnight Pals on twitter at @midnight_pals or subscribe to the podcast at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com.
A transcript of this trailer is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/teaser-06-edgar-allan-poe/transcript
[SPOOKY MUSIC, BELLS CHIMING]
VOICEOVER: Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals, created by Bitter Karella.
STEPHEN KING: I hereby call this meeting of the Midnight Society to order. As you can see, I’m standing in for our regular MC, Edgar Allan Poe, because Edgar will be our storyteller tonight. Edgar, you have the floor.
EDGAR ALLAN POE: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story... [SPARKLE] The Tale of the Black Cat. (FONDLY) It’s based on my cat.
[BASS LINE STARTS PLAYING]
POE: Once upon a midnight drunken, while I staggered, soused and sunken,
Through the dark like one spelunkin’, suddenly I heard a wail.
In my liquor-laden blunder, as my headache throbbed like thunder,
My black cat had gotten underfoot and I had squished his tail—
HP LOVECRAFT: (INTERRUPTING) What’s your cat’s name?
POE: Her name’s Catterina. You guys wanna see a picture?
LOVECRAFT: What sort of name for a cat is that?
MARY SHELLEY: Oh, you’re the expert on cat names, ain’t you, Lovecraft?
LOVECRAFT: “Catterina”? It’s not even a slur.
POE: Howard.
[END MUSIC PLAYS, AN ARRANGEMENT OF BASS AND BANJO TO THE RHYTHM OF POE'S "THE RAVEN"]
VOICEOVER: 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.