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Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals

by Bitter Karella
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  • The Tale of THAT

    November 16, 2025 · 46 min

    It’s the night of the full moon, and someone forgot to lock up Stephen King securely. Now Steve’s evil alter ego, Richard Bachman, has escaped! The Pals have no choice but to hear his murder clown hotel story. CAST  Stephen King/Richard…

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    November 7, 2025 · 25 min

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    February 15, 2025 · 7 min

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    February 7, 2025 · 44 min

    Anne Rice comes to the campfire to tell her timeless odd-couple romance about a depressed slave plantation owner who’s swept off his feet by a total jerk. Also, they’re both vampires. Al Copeland gets a taste of his own chicken.  Content…

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  • The Tale of the Watchers

    January 31, 2025 · 39 min

    It’s Edgar’s turn with the flashlight… but, after a heated debate about what makes a better plot device, the death of a beautiful woman or a murderous monkey, little Dean Koontz ends up telling tonight's story instead. It has everything—an…

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    January 24, 2025 · 34 min

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  • The Tale of the Hellraiser

    January 17, 2025 · 38 min

    When Edgar Allan Poe is missing after a violent altercation with Henry W. Longfellow, a mysterious puzzlebox leads the Midnight Pals to the ninth circle of Hell, where they confront a gang of sadomasochistic demons. Brian Jacques…

  • Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 2 trailer

    December 12, 2024 · 2 min

    Season 2 of "Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals" releases Friday January 17th, 2025! Living and dead horror authors tell scary stories round the campfire in this audio adaptation of Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated…

  • The Tale of the Candyman

    October 2, 2024 · 11 min

    Roger Corman attempts to make a series of "Candyman" movies. Can he complete his totally popular, not-at-all-obscure-cult-classic slasher quadrilogy without being thwarted by the bee-adjacent serial killer himself? Oh, and... ONE OF OUR…

  • The Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    November 7, 2023 · 35 min

    A new candidate for the Midnight Society, insufferable San Francisco hipster Robert Louis Stevenson, attempts to impress the Pals with the story of Henry Jekyll, a Victorian psychiatrist. On the steamship home from a business trip…

  • The Tale of the Frankenstein

    October 30, 2023 · 38 min

    Mary Shelley tells her Midnight Pals a chilling tale about a brilliant young researcher, Victor, whose arrogance leads him to pursue a deadly ambition. The experiment has been attempted by generations of mad scientists, but never…

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About the show

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.