Midnight Snack: The Tale of the Torture Tower

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals

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 on Tuesday 31st October— but there will also be a special early streamed premiere and open hangout with the cast and crew on Sunday 29th October at 5PM GMT / 1PM Eastern / 10AM Pacific. Join us on Rodrigo "Poe" Borges's twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/TheCommanderRod

CAST:

• BRAM STOKER – Joel A.S. Butler
• EDGAR ALLAN POE — Rodrigo Borges
• CLIVE BARKER — Sister Indica
• HP LOVECRAFT – Robin Johnson
• MARY SHELLEY – Rebecca D'Souza
• STEPHEN KING – Jason Robinson
• DEAN KOONTZ — Wren Montgomery

Script, production and music by Robin Johnson, loosely adapted from The Sq**w by Bram Stoker. The Midnight Pals is created by Bitter Karella. All characters are fictitious, especially the real ones.

About the story: Bram Stoker's unfortunately named short story The Sq**w was included in his posthumously published short story collection Dracula's Guest, which can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10150 (CN for explicit racism, torture, gore, and killing of humans and animals.) In adaptations it has been variously renamed Dungeon of Horror, Cat's Cradle and The Torture Tower.

HP Lovecraft's childhood cat was named either what you're thinking, or something worse.

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A transcript of this teaser is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/teaser-12-bram-stoker/transcript