Best Midnight Pals Podcasts (2025)

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Midnight Snack: The Tale of the Talented Mr Ripley 6:46

4M ago6:46

6:46

In a six-minute mini-episode, Patricia Highsmith tells the Midnight Pals her story of the (maybe not so) Talented Mr Ripley, and then the real Charles Dickens himself drops in at the campfire. Content notes: swearing, discussion of internalized homophobia, violence and discussion of murder, stalking. CAST: Clive Barker — DAVID AULT Edgar Allan Poe …

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The Tale of the Interview with the Vampire 43:30

4M ago43:30

43:30

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 notes: swearing, raised voices, gory noises, death, violence, murder, slavery, implied domestic abuse, sexual ref…

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The Tale of the Watchers 39:03

4M ago39:03

39:03

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 all-American Special Army Marine, a poorly written neurodivergent lady, an evil mutagenic monkey who's escaped…

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The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood 34:02

5M ago34:02

34:02

The Pals visit JRR Tolkien and his fantasy storytelling friends at Unicorn F*** Club, where Angela Carter puts a modern, feminist spin on a traditional fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen is smitten. Frank Belknap Long gets stuck in his fursuit. Content notes: Swearing, violence, allusion to sexual assault, vomit, gory noises, people being eaten, s…

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The Tale of the Hellraiser 38:23

5M ago38:23

38:23

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 humorously outwits a cat. Content notes: violence, gory noises, blood, swearing and raised voices. CAST: Clive Barker — …

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Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 2 trailer 1:30

6M ago1:30

1:30

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 comedy-horror microfiction. This trailer contains clips from upcoming episodes "The Tale of the Interview with the Vampire"…

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The Tale of the Candyman 11:16

8M ago11:16

11:16

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 HEROES DIES TRAGICALLY!!!—but gets better, with a brand new face and voice actor. Content notes: swearing, sexual…

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The Tale of the Tell-Tale Heart 33:42

1+ y ago33:42

33:42

Low-budget movie mogul Roger Corman sets out to produce a papier maché blockbuster adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of psychological suspense. Loosely following the plot of the original, Poe is tasked with taking care of a Scottish castle belonging to a certain formerly popular children's author. But uh oh! His wacky pal Stephen King ar…

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The Tale of the Snow Woman 37:33

1+ y ago37:33

37:33

It's winter at the campfire, and that means one thing—snow-themed holiday special! The Midnight Pals are visited by Junji Ito, adorable catboy and terrifying master of fucked-up-face-filled manga horror, accompanied by original weeaboo Lafcadio Hearn. The pair narrate an ancient Japanese folktale of ripped samurai, distressed noblewomen, and season…

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The Tale of the Nightbreed 35:11

1+ y ago35:11

35:11

Clive Barker takes the stage and relates his cult classic of an eternal battle—gay monsters versus redneck cops. Cabal has always had unsettling dreams of becoming a gay monster, but his personal journey to gay monsterhood is obstructed by queer-gatekeeping monsters, Nazi sheriffs' departments, and unconvincing gimp-mask serial killer David Cronenb…

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The Tale of the Strangers on a Train 47:49

1+ y ago47:49

47:49

Patricia Highsmith, crime writer, snail friend, and lovable weirdo known for her shabby trenchcoat, eccentric habits, and possibly imaginary wife, investigates a bizarre double murder. Two people who don't know each other, or if you will, "strangers", meet on a rail vehicle, or as it were, "train", and plan the perfect crime. What really happened w…

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The Tale of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Midnight Society 41:49

1+ y ago41:49

41:49

Arthur Conan Doyle stumbles upon the Midnight Pals' storytelling circle and reluctantly agrees to bring beloved supersleuth Sherlock Holmes back for one last, final, final case. A locked-room murder mystery turns to metafictional highjinks as the Pals are embroiled in the world of Holmes's adventures, sort of like when the holodeck malfunctions on …

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The Tale of Dracula 36:38

1+ y ago36:38

36:38

Neurotic closet-dweller Bram Stoker visits the campfire to tell his iconic vampire story. In Transylvania, hot twink Jon "Jonathan" Harker shacks up with a rich older man who wants to consume his bodily fluids. Meanwhile in England, notorious strumpet Lucy Westenra attempts to ensnare her innocent friend Mina into the dangerous and disgusting world…

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The Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 35:11

1+ y ago35:11

35:11

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, Jekyll's seemingly chance meeting with a certain Edward Hyde will change his perception of reality forever. In a twist…

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The Tale of the Frankenstein 37:32

1+ y ago37:32

37:32

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 successfully accomplished: the creation of a Frankenstein! Stephen King gets pedantic about terminology. Content notes: …

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Midnight Snack: The Tale of the Torture Tower 9:25

1+ y ago9:25

9:25

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 o…

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Midnight Snacks: 10 teaser mini-episodes 14:48

1+ y ago14:48

14:48

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 ten short ‘teaser…

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Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals: Season 1 trailer 0:59

2y ago0:59

0:59

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 STEVE…

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7. A Night Scene featuring The Midnight Pals 25:43

2+ y ago25:43

25:43

Halloween special featuring bitter karella's Hugo-nominated microfiction The Midnight Pals! In a quest to resurrect a Morlock, Orwell and Wells find themselves in a weird metaphysical forest inhabited by historical horror writers, and attempt to impress Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe around the campfire. The Midnight Pals is crea…

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Featured trailer: HG Wells Has His Regrets 5:50

2+ y ago5:50

5:50

Find all episodes of H. G. Wells Has His Regrets on all the usual podcast sites, and more info at https://hgwellshashisregrets.wordpress.com. Timestamps (mm:ss): 00:00: Preambulatory waffle 00:16: Crossover special with bitter karella's The Midnight Pals (trailer here: https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover…

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Halloween special featuring the Midnight Pals (trailer) 2:11

2+ y ago2:11

2:11

Coming this Halloween, a crossover Hugo-nominated twitter microfiction The Midnight Pals! Wells and Orwell sit round the campfire with Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley and H. P. Lovecraft in an uncharacteristically spooky episode of Untrue Stories. The Midnight Pals is created by bitter karella. You can follow their antics on Twitter at https://twitte…

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Complete Season 1 omnibus: The Adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells 1:42:20

3y ago1:42:20

1:42:20

A supercut of all season 1 episodes for convenient bingeing. George Orwell has rented a getaway cottage on a remote Scottish island to finish work on his groundbreaking novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unfortunately, he finds he's been double-booked with the last person he'd choose to take a holiday with—his annoying literary nemesis, H. G. Wells! An ar…

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6. The Wonderful Visit 20:00

3y ago20:00

20:00

Orwell, Wells and their pals gather in 1948 for the astonishing season finale. Wells arrives back on the Isle of Jura with an uninvited guest, where things come to a head as even more time travelling science fiction writers arrive to interfere. CAST Robin Johnson as George Orwell Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin Lisell…

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The Telescreen Programme: Newspeak Phrasebook 6:28

3y ago6:28

6:28

Brush up your Newspeak with a selection of typical scenes from Oceanian everyday life, with Oldspeak translation. As a bonus mini-episode, we bring you a telescreen programme from the world of Orwell's 1984. Learn about Oceania's official language, Newspeak, maked hardworkwise by Oceania's goodest brainers to plusficient your talkfulness while decr…

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5. Man Becomes a Different Animal 17:20

3y ago17:20

17:20

Wells arrives in a distant future where humanity as we know it is extinct. How will he get his bicycle repaired now? Following H. G. Wells' hurried departure from Orwell's world of 1984, his malfunctioning time-bicycle veers into the far and bizarre future that he will one day chronicle in his own novella, The Time Machine. Facing off against super…

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Classic sci-fi authors in their own worlds (1-minute trailer) 1:00

3y ago1:00

1:00

What happens when two giants of speculative fiction double-book a getaway cottage... A one-minute trailer for Season 1 of Untrue Stories, in which George Orwell and H. G. Wells argue about tea, go time travelling, and sort of accidentally-on-purpose overthrow western democracy. Includes material from episodes one through five. Untrue Stories is a c…

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Mini-episode: Exile to Hell 6:56

3y ago6:56

6:56

Big Brother makes an unofficial visit to the Inner Hebrides joycamp to pay his personal respects to a special prisoner. This is a mini-episode taking place some time between the events of episode 4 "How a Nation is Exploited". Starring Robin Johnson as George Orwell, Alexander Walsh as Isaac Asimov, Eve Morris as the joycamp commander, Patrick Spra…

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Mini-episode: Evil George Orwell 1:55

3y ago1:55

1:55

Bonus mini-episode! George Orwell meets the version of George Orwell that internet weirdos often seem to confuse him with. Starring Robin Johnson as George Orwell and Liselle Nic Giollabháin as Thought Police Officer Rutherford. A transcript of this episode is available here. There's also a (slightly shortened) version of it as an illustrated, subt…

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4. How a Nation Is Exploited 18:36

3y ago18:36

18:36

How a power-crazed junta of 20th-century dystopian authors overthrew Western democracy — and what went wrong. In the fourth exciting instalment of the time-travelling adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells, 1984's Big Brother himself has appeared before our heroes to relate the story of his rise to power at the head of a team of dystopian visi…

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Season 1: Orwell, Wells, tea and time travel 2:00

3y ago2:00

2:00

The infamous rivalry between two classic speculative fiction writers leads to a thrilling and bizarre story of tea, bicycles and time travel in Untrue Stories' first season, The Adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells. Untrue Stories is a comedy-drama sci-fi serial that puts its own surreal spin on classic speculative fiction. Written and produ…

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3. Battle Ground 13:07

3y ago13:07

13:07

Wells and Julia have changed the future, but can they be sure they've changed it for the better? No. H. G. Wells' and Julia's tinkering with the timeline has unexpected (and, of course, untrue) results. Julia, born in the future they've just changed, experiences a strange transformation as the timeline ripples... but what does it mean? And all the …

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2. The Wheels of Chance 16:33

3y ago16:33

16:33

H. G. Wells takes a wrong turn on his time-travelling bicycle, and finds that he and Orwell have both lost their bets. Continuing the adventures of George Orwell and H. G. Wells, Wells' inaugural time-travel journey takes him a bit further into the future than he intended: instead of one week, he travels nearly forty years. What he finds matches ne…

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1. A Nice Cup of Tea 14:59

3y ago14:59

14:59

George Orwell has rented a Scottish cottage to complete his final novel. Unfortunately, he's been double-booked with the very last person he'd choose a holiday with. The first season of Untrue Stories will visit the worlds of both H. G. Wells' The Time Machine and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, exploring how the infamous rivalry between two …

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That time the tour van got towed 17:19

7+ y ago17:19

17:19

Terrific stuff. The tour van got towed. Who's fault is that? We may never know. But certainly wasn't Kyran's.By All Our Exes Live In Texas & Kyran Wheatley

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That time nobody had proper bedding. 20:32

7+ y ago20:32

20:32

It is important to save money on tour. In light of this, in Denver nobody had a proper bed.By All Our Exes Live In Texas & Kyran Wheatley

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That time we spent hours searching for the Sleepless in Seattle house. 20:37

7+ y ago20:37

20:37

It is important to take time on tour for enjoyment. On this occasion, that meant seeking out some house from an OK movie.By All Our Exes Live In Texas & Kyran Wheatley