Midnight Pals: Mambo Macabre

Tabitha King: did listening to lou bega’s mambo no 5 incessantly on loop for hours help inspire you to write?
Stephen King: it did!
Stephen King: but why wound readers’ brain with words?!
Stephen King: when I can set their souls on fire with a slanderous mambo?!?

Stephen King: [rolling fedora down arm & popping it onto head in one fluid motion] ladies and gentlemen
King: mambo no 5 has inspired me
King: so I have composed my own mambo
Koontz: wow!
Koontz: I can’t believe someone wrote a sixth mambo!

King: listen, if you will, to MY mambo
King: bam BAM badam bam bam
King: ohhhh
King: A LITTLE BIT OF TABITHA
King: SHE’S MY WIFE!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF MARY
King: SHE’S GOT A KNIFE!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF SONIA, SHE LIKES SQUID!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF JAC, IN THE GRIP OF IT!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF DAPHNE, FOR THE BIRDS!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF SEANAN, FOR THE NERDS!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF VC, IN THE ATTIC!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF PATRICIA, SHE’S PROBLEMATIC!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF URSULA, ON THE FARM!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF MARIAH DARLING AND EVE HARMS!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF HAILEY, WITH YELLOW GAME!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF CHARLOTTE, WITH WALLPAPER SAME!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF ANGELA, WITH CHAMBER BLOODY!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF EMILY, FACE ALL RUDDY!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF PAULA, FACE FULL OF TEETH!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF KRISTI, GOIN DOWN BENEATH!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF SILVIA, GOTHIC MEXICAN!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF KIJ, SHE LOVES JAPAN!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF TANANARIVE, MY SOUL TO KEEP!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF HILDUR, DON’T GO TO SLEEP!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF AGUSTINA, KILLING HEAD!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF MEGAN, THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF KATHE, HOLES IN WALLS!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF GRETCHEN, EATING BALLS!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF LAUREL, DAY OF THE DOOR!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF GEMMA – FILES AND AMOR!

King: A LITTLE BIT OF JENNIFER, WITH WINTER PEOPLE!
King: A LITTLE BIT OF SHIRLEY, WITH SUMMER PEOPLE!
Barker: you can’t rhyme people with people
King: a little bit uhh
King: uhhhhh
King: you threw me off
King: now I lost it
Barker: not a big loss, really
Poe: clive