The Midnight Society

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King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

Stephen King: guys, i'm really excited King: tonight we've got an actual, genuine humor writer to talk to us! Piers Anthony: oh gosh, steve! you Anthony: you flatter me! King: i uh King: i wasn't actually talking about you, piers Anthony:

August Derleth: welcome to another sanity-draining game of Call of Cathulhu Derleth: i'm your dungeonmaster, august Derleth Derleth: let's go around the table are reintroduce our characters Derleth: and they better NOT be subversive!

[mysterious circle of robed figures] Kathleen Stock: dark lord! dark lord! Stock: terrible news!! Stock: the feile en phobail art festival says we can't run our usual genital inspection booth! JK Rowling: WHAT Rowling: thisss iss an outrage!! Rowling: the people LOVE our genital insspection booth!!

Poe: this slop is insufferable! Poe: if only there was an auteur to save us! Darren Aronofsky: did someone call for an auteur Poe: oh thank god! Aronofsky: have you ever thought about the good things about slop Poe: oh my god Poe: they got to you too!

Zach London: you know that sinking feeling that you get when you click on a youtube video that looks cool but then you realize it's AI slop made by an unfeeling machine? London: what if you could also get that feeling in a movie theater? London: gentlemen i give you gossip goblin

Dean Koontz: guess what guys! Koontz: it's my birthday! Koontz: so i'm gonna go to las vegas to party it up with homer simpson, spongebob squarepants and wile e coyote! Poe: King: Barker: Lovecraft: Koontz: and, to be clear, this is a real thing i posted

[mysterious circle of robed figures] JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally Rowling: finally!!! Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss

Megan Bontrager: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the sea hides its dead Bontrager: where are the dead? Bontrager: you'll never find 'em Bontrager: and why's that? Bontrager: cuz the sea is hiding them

John Scalzi: [carrying tray of burritos] who wants delicious burritos?! Scalzi: you've got your choice Scalzi: peanut butter and mayo Scalzi: apple sauce and vodka sauce Scalzi: chicken adobo and asbestos Scalzi: beef stroganoff and gravel

Whitley Strieber: welcome to the dreamland podcast Strieber: the only podcast that casts the pod that the man doesn't want you to know Strieber: the truth is out there Strieber: or is that just what THEY want you to think? Strieber: trust no one Strieber: or is that just who THEY want you to trust?

William Peter Blatty: OMG guys!!! the society of st. pius X has schismed from the mother church!!!! Blatty: this could be the biggest interdoctrinal ecumenitestimal since the integral convergence of the helgrimite blasphemy at the diet of dendronal in 1536!!!!!! Poe: King: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker:

There is a direct line one can trace from the way the religious right in the 80s & 90s went after Goths, Pagans, vampires & other non-conformist identity groups - often by framing them as delusional & inherently dangerous to minors - and their successful attacks upon trans people now

Damien McCarthy: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, i call this the tale of the guy who, via a series of Rube Goldberg-esque contrivances, has a supernatural experience McCarthy: also McCarthy: there's a spooky rabbit Ramsey Campbell: ooo! a rabbit!

[at unicorn fuck club] Larry Correia: see, the problem is that GRR Martin didn't finish Game of Thrones Correia: now publishers refuse to take a chance on multi-book epic fantasy series Correia: perhaps GRR should have thought about how that would affect me Correia: the protagonist of reality

Robin Cook: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the scary medicine King: wow! scary medicine! Cook: and the scariest part? Cook: it's real King: what?! Cook: that's right! Cook: it could all happen in the not so distant future!