Bitter Karella

Midnight Pals: Revenge

Dickens: okay listen up, you grinches, i'm about to melt your icy hearts with another tale of yuletide joy
Dickens: it's called the mother's eyes
Dickens: it's about this guy who murders a gu...

Midnight Pals: More Christmas

Charles Dickens: ho ho ho it's me, Mr Christmas!
Dickens: time for more Christmas cheer!
Poe: it's january, charles
Dickens:
Dickens:
Dickens:

Dickens: you know what your probl...

Midnight Pals: Liberalism

JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i finally know why the ungrateful kidss thesse dayss have been rejecting harry potter
Barker: we all figured that out a long time ago
Poe: clive
...

Midnight Pals: It's January

Poe: boy
Poe: boy it's sure been a year, hasn't it?
King: edgar, it's January

Poe: it looks like the regime is letting up
Mary Shelley: how do you figure that
Poe: they demoted gr...

A Special Presentation 329: The Ruben Award [1 of 2]

In theory, we were supposed to talk about the Rube Goldberg-penned 1930 film "Soup to Nuts," but we got distracted and instead went through the 2026-01-26 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Midnight Pals: Sexy Santa

Dickens: you're all a bunch of humbugs
Dickens: none of you understand the true meaning of Christmas!
Barker: what about Katherine arden?
Dickens: what?
Barker: her book is about the re...

Midnight Pals: Christmas Forever

Charles Dickens: merry Christmas, everyone!
King:
Poe:
Koontz:
Barker:
Lovecraft:
Poe: it's January, Charles
Dickens: not to me!
Dickens: to me, it's always Christmas!

A Special Presentation 328: Betty Boop

Betty Boop is in the public domain now! Well, sort of. The original Betty B...

Midnight Pals: Eureka

Poe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of eureka
Poe: this is going to be a little different from my usual stuff
Poe: it's actually a scientific meditat...

Midnight Pals: By Volume

[scottish castle]
JK Rowling's agent: hey joanne
agent: you wanted to see me?
JK Rowling: yesss
Rowling: i want to enquire
Rowling: how are sssales of the hallmarked man?
ag...

Midnight Pals: Derelictions

Adam Nevill: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the wyrd
Nevill: it's actually not so much a tale now that i think about it
Koontz: is it more of a st...

A Special Presentation 327: Saturday Morning Preview Park [3 of 3]

In 1984, Weird Al Yankovic teamed up with Scooby Doo to host a special preview of all the cool upcoming cartoons that kids could see on ABC Saturday mornings that season. For a long time, it seemed...

Midnight Pals: Gryffindors

JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: oh hi joanne
Poe: do you have something to
Rowling: I have sssomething to sssay
Poe: is it about
Rowling: iran ssseemss to be unusssually full of gryf...

Midnight Pals: Mannequins on the Move

Stephen King: guys i just came up with a great idea for a story
King: what if you saw a bunch of mannequins driving a car?
Lovecraft:
Barker:
Poe:
Koontz: whoa!
Koontz: that would...

Midnight Pals: Lectures

[unicorn fuck club]
JRR Tolkien: sorry chaps I can't speak tonight
Tolkien: i'm afraid i'm quite busy at my day job
Tolkien: being a professor at oxford
CS Lewis: wow, a professor AND a...

A Special Presentation 326: Saturday Morning Preview Park [2 of 3]

In 1984, Weird Al Yankovic teamed up with Scooby Doo to host a special preview of all the cool upcoming cartoons that kids could see on ABC Saturday mornings that season. For a long time, it seemed...

Midnight Pals: Another Forever War

[white house]
Trump: so we're bombing venezuela now
Trump: no reason, really, just because
Trump: we just had all these bombs lying around
Trump: and we thought
Trump: why not
JD ...

Midnight Pals: Slop Machine

Damon Knight: holy machine learning process! it seems that people don't AI slop being elligible for the nebula!
Knight: what to do?
Knight: i'll feed the question into the bat computer
Eri...

Midnight Pals: SFWA Drama

Damon Knight: hello citizens
Knight: it's me, damon knight
Knight: science fiction writer, SFWA founder, and vigilante crime fighter
Barker: yeah that scans
Poe: how do you figure that,...

A Special Presentation 325: ABC Preview Park [1 of 3]

In 1984, Weird Al Yankovic teamed up with Scooby Doo to host a special preview of all the cool upcoming cartoons that kids could see on ABC Saturday mornings that season. For a long time, it seemed...

Midnight Pals: Christmas Chimes

Charles Dickens: holy shit you guys
Dickens: turns out everyone really loved a Christmas carol
Dickens: this whole Christmas ghost story idea is a gold mine!
Dickens: i'm gonna write a new...

Midnight Pals: Spooky Christmas

Charles Dickens: hey it's Christmas!
Dickens: you know what that means!
Clive Barker: Christmas was last week, man
Dickens: it means
Dickens: what?
Dickens: no no that can't be!

Ugly Sweater Party: Tis The Season to Save Santa!

Mike and Ethan have got the crew together again! Rocketshark, Fattyatomicmutant and Glumdrop are all here 2025-12-22 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Midnight Pals: Black Mold

[scottish castle]
JK Rowling: ugh! i'm tired of all thesssse people online making fun of my black mold!
Rowling: that'sss it!
Rowling: today isss the day that i do sssomething about it

A Special Presentation 323: Jack Frost

It's the holiday season, so it's Rankin Bass time! Rankin Bass made SO MANY holiday specials that were all sort of stealth Christmas specials. They still hold up, especially 2025-12-15 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Midnight Pals: Huffing Markers

King: you know we haven't seen JK Rowling in a while
King: is she still tweeting?
Barker: ha ha ha oh steve
Barker: ha ha ha ha ha
Barker: ha ha ha ha ha ha
King: what's so funny? 2025-12-11 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Midnight Pals: Orgasm Lake

Graham Joyce: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of some kind of fairy tale
Joyce: it's about a girl who gets kidnapped by fairies
Joyce: and i know what...

Midnight Pals: Magic Book

Matt Maxwell: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of no tomorrows
Maxwell: it takes place back in the cool dank cyberpunk noir future of 1980s Los Angeles 2025-12-08 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post

A Special Presentation 322: A Comet in Moominland

A comet is threatening Moominland in this animated adaptation of the beloved Moomin comics by Finnish cartoonist Tove Marika Jansson. Moomin and his pals go to an observatory to get some inf...

Midnight Pals: Romance

Colleen Hoover: anyway i have a fun, sassy little romance for you that i think you'll all love
Hoover: it's totally normal and NOT fucked up in any way
Poe: ok this is really not assuaging me...