7. A Night Scene featuring The Midnight Pals

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 created by bitter karella. You can follow their antics on Twitter at https://twitter.com/midnight_pals. They are currently crowdfunding for their third book! More details at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/submitted-for-the-approval-of-the-midnight-pals-3

CAST

• Robin Johnson as George Orwell
• Patrick Spragg as H. G. Wells
• Tara Court as Julia
• Joanna Lawrie as Mrs Watchett
• Rachel Pulliam as Ursula Le Guin
• Rebecca Thibodeaux as the newspaper seller
• Alexander Walsh as the servant
• Canavan Connolly as the Morlock

WITH SPECIAL GUEST MIDNIGHT PALS

• Rebecca D'Souza as Mary Shelley
• Robin Johnson as H. P. Lovecraft
• Canavan Connolly as Edgar Allan Poe

I'm Cthulhu goes to (something like) the tune of Flanders and Swann's The Gnu.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://untrue-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/midnight-pals-halloween-crossover/transcript.

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