The Tale of Dracula

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11/14/23 • 36 min

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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 of sex. A cautionary tale about the perils of horniness, as Bram attempts to prove once and for all that vampires are in no way sexy. Mary Shelley invites Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer just to stir the pot.

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, violence, death, guns, gory sounds, Victorian institutionalisation of mental health patients, strong sexual content.

CAST

Edgar Allan Poe/Dracula — RODRIGO BORGES
Mary Shelley/Mina Murray — REBECCA D'SOUZA
Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON
Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON

with

Bram Stoker/Quincey Morris — JOEL A.S. BUTLER
Jonathan Harker — THADDEUS STRANGE
Lucy Westenra — MARNIE WARNER
Dr Van Helsing/Dr Seward — CASSIE VULPINE
Renfield — JOHN SERRANO
Anne Rice — LORETTA CHANG
Stephenie Meyer — NOMI IBSEN
Additional voices — EMILY HANNAK, LOU SUTCLIFFE, DAVID COURT

Script by Bitter Karella, edited by Robin Johnson, based loosely on Dracula by Bram Stoker. Production by Robin Johnson. Music by Alex Rancourt, Robin Johnson and Lou Sutcliffe.

Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula is the codifying example of the vampire story in popular culture. The book is in the public domain and can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

Stoker's completely normal letter to Walt Whitman, written on Valentine's Day of 1876, can be read at https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/bram-stoker-walt-whitman-letter/

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e03-the-tale-of-dracula/transcript

The Midnight Pals is the creation of Bitter Karella ©

Subscribe to Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Cast, or wherever you find podcasts. For more information, see https://midnightpals.com

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, violence, death, guns, gory sounds, Victorian institutionalisation of mental health patients, strong sexual content.

CAST

Edgar Allan Poe/Dracula — RODRIGO BORGES
Mary Shelley/Mina Murray — REBECCA D'SOUZA
Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON
Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON

with

Bram Stoker/Quincey Morris — JOEL A.S. BUTLER
Jonathan Harker — THADDEUS STRANGE
Lucy Westenra — MARNIE WARNER
Dr Van Helsing/Dr Seward — CASSIE VULPINE
Renfield — JOHN SERRANO
Anne Rice — LORETTA CHANG
Stephenie Meyer — NOMI IBSEN
Additional voices — EMILY HANNAK, LOU SUTCLIFFE, DAVID COURT

Script by Bitter Karella, edited by Robin Johnson, based loosely on Dracula by Bram Stoker. Production by Robin Johnson. Music by Alex Rancourt, Robin Johnson and Lou Sutcliffe.

Stoker's completely normal letter to Walt Whitman, written on Valentine's Day of 1876, can be read at https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/09/bram-stoker-walt-whitman-letter/

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e03-the-tale-of-dracula/transcript

The Midnight Pals is the creation of Bitter Karella ©

Subscribe to Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Cast, or wherever you find podcasts. For more information, see https://midnightpals.com

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The Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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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 so unexpected that nobody even knows it's a twist, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde turn out to be the same person! An adrenaline-fueled social satire of mischief, mayhem and soup.

Content notes: swearing, discussion of colonialism and colonial violence, mention of death, murder and cannibalism, guns, explosions, themes of mental illness and dissociative identity.

CAST

Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES
Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA
Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON
Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON

with

Robert Louis Stevenson — DEXTER HOWARD
Dr Jekyll — KARIM KRONFLI
Mr Hyde — SEAN BABAPULLE
The Major — DAVID COURT
Poole — DAISY MCNAMARA
Constable — CANAVAN CONNOLLY
Resurrection Man — BRAD BARNES
Fanny Osbourne — SENI RIVERA

Script by Robin Johnson, edited by Bitter Karella, based (very) loosely on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Production and music by Robin Johnson. The sensitivity reader was Rebecca D'Souza, and Daisy McNamara was an audio consultant.

Stevenson's original novella is in the public domain, and can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/43

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e02-the-tale-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/transcript

The Midnight Pals is the creation of Bitter Karella ©

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The Tale of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Midnight Society

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 Star Trek.

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, drug references, portrayal of psychologically abusive relationships, threats of violence, guns, discussion of death, loss, grieving and murder.

CAST

Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES
Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA
Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
HP Lovecraft/Arthur Conan Doyle — ROBIN JOHNSON
Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON

with

Sherlock Holmes — LOU SUTCLIFFE
Dr Watson — CANAVAN CONNOLLY
Professor Moriarty/Ian Fleming — JOEL A.S. BUTLER
Inspector Lestrade — LISELLE NIC GIOLLABHÁIN
Old-timey radio announcer — NOMI IBSEN
Raymond Chandler — DEXTER HOWARD

Script by Robin Johnson, edited by Bitter Karella, based on the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Production and music by Robin Johnson. Daisy McNamara was an audio consultant.

Most of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (as well as his Professor Challenger ones) are in the public domain and can be found on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e04-the-tale-of-sherlock-holmes/transcript

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