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Midnight Pals is a comedic Twitter-based microfiction account that imagines what might happen if different horror writers were to gather around the campfire to tell scary stories similar to the format of the old Nickelodeon TV series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". Although ostensibly adults, the writers frequently behave as adolescents or children, similar to the series' protagonists. Authored by Bitter Karella, Midnight Pals has been posting stories since April 2019, and has published two book collections of the earlier tweet threads.

The main group of writers in the series, called the Midnight Society, consists of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, HP Lovecraft, and Edgar Allan Poe. Other campfire groups have been stated to exist for other genres of literature, including Unicorn Fuck Club for fantasy and Space Coven for science fiction -- although there is frequent overlap with authors visiting one another's campfires.

The following list includes some of the recurring characters; although based on real people, an author's fictional Midnight Pals counterpart often diverges far from the source material so the following "facts" should not be taken as necessarily true of the actual authors. Story tellers include:

## The Midnight Society (the Core Players)

* **Clive Barker** - Author of "The Books of Blood," Director of "Hellraiser" and "Nightbreed." Sarcastic asshole. Likes to stir things up. Frequently clashes with Poe. Horny.
* **Stephen King** - The "dad" of the group. Clueless but well-meaning with extremely out-of-date tastes. Loves his actual son Joe Hill and is always extremely proud of whatever the hell Joe is doing whether or not he can understand it. Likes to remind everyone about his band, The Rock Bottom Remainders -- although most other campfire visitors can't actually stand his music. Implied to occasionally turn into Richard Bachman on the night of the full moon.
* **Dean Koontz** - Author of "Phantoms," "Odd Thomas" and "Watchers." Doofy kid, innocent and full of child-like wonder. Frequently confused. Everyone wants to protect him. Really loves dogs.
* **HP Lovecraft** - Author of Cthulhu mythos. Nervous, socially awkward weirdo. Afraid of every minority but especially Italians. Used to date Sonia Greene and seemed completely unaware that she is Jewish.
* **Edgar Allan Poe** - Author of "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." The long-suffering group MC. Constant straight man to Barker, usually tries to restrain Barker's shenanigans with a weary "Clive."

## Frequent Visitors

* **Margaret Atwood** - Author of "The Handmaid's Tale." Constantly inventing robots that are really just her hiding under a cardboard box and speaking through a vocoder. This is a reference to the real life Atwood inventing a robot called The Long Pen which allowed her to remotely sign books.
* **Joe Hill** - Stephen King's son, often embarrassed by but loves his dad. Often has to explain modern slang or technology to his out-of-touch boomer dad.

## Others Who Have Dropped By

* **Kobo Abe** - Author of "Secret Rendezvous" and "Woman in the Dunes."
* **Forrest J Ackerman** - Magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent; early founder of science fiction fandom. A strange eccentric millionaire who runs Deadliest Game type events in his booby trapped mansion. Morojo is his silent bodyguard.
* **Airdorf** - Game designer of "Faith"
* **Aaron Alexovich** - Comic creator of "Serenity Rose." baby goth who likes to show off knowledge of goth subtypes.
* **Charles Addams** - Cartoonist & creator of the Addams Family.
* **Robert Aikman** - Author of short stories "The Hospice" and "The Swords."
* **Hans Christian Andersen** - Author of "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Little Mermaid." Easily gets crushes on anyone who'll talk to him. Nobody walks to talk to him.
* **VC Andrews** - Author of "Flowers in the Attic."
* **Mirka Andolfo** - Comic creator of "Unnatural" and "Mercy."
* **Piers Anthony** - Author of Xanth and Incarnations of Immortality book series. Panty huffer.
* **Dario Argento** - Director of "Suspira" and "Inferno." Resident Italian stereotype. Speaks in exaggerated fake Italian accent.
* **JG Ballard** - Author of "Highrise" and "The Atrocity Exhibition."
* **Charles Band** - Director of Puppetmaster and Evil Bong movies.
* **Tracey Baptiste** - Author of the Jumbies book series.
* **Lindsey Barraclough** - Author of "Long Lankin."
* **Dave Barry** - Humor columnist. A member of Stephen King's band, the Rockbottom Remainders.
* **L. Frank Baum** - Author of Oz book series.
* **Mario Bava** - Director of "Black Sunday" and "Planet of the Vampires."
* **Geri Bartlett**
* **Laird Barron**
* **Alan Baxter** - Author of "The Roo" and "The Gulp."
* **Greg Bear** - Lovable dope who constant repeats "I'm Greg Bear!" SIGMA member.
* **Charles Beaumont**
* **Zdzislaw Beksinski** - Painter known for his surreal horror landscapes.
* **John Bellairs** - Author of Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday book series.
* **EF Benson**
* **Ambrose Bierce**
* **Jason Blair** - RPG game designer of "Little Fears."
* **Algernon Blackwood**
* **William Peter Blatty** - Author of "The Exorcist." Fanatical Catholic who wishes he was Irish Catholic. Denies his actual Lebanese heritage.
* **Robert Bloch** - Author of "Psycho." True crime podcast fan.
* **Bogleech** - Creator of Awful Hospital.
* **Max Booth III** - Author of "We Need to Do Something."
* **Steven Boyett** - Author of "The Architect of Sleep." Hates furries. This is a reference to the real life Boyett's reaction to finding out about the popularity of his book 'The Architect of Sleep' among furries.
* **Ray Bradbury** - Author of "Fahrenheit 451." Adult Disney fan. Uses way too many metaphors.
* **Poppy Z Brite** - Author of "Exquisite Corpse" and "Are You Loathesome Tonight." Obsessed ferret owner.
* **Octavia Butler**
* **Lord Byron** - Dashing, handsome, charismatic. Beautiful man whom everyone loves.
* **Chelsea Cain**
* **Marjorie Cameron**
* **Ramsey Campbell**
* **Dale Carlson** - Author of "The Plant People."
* **John Carpenter** - Director of "The Thing," "They Live" and "Halloween." Carpenter's running gag is that no one likes his stories when he tells them but later on decide that they're brilliant, or else like when other people tell the same stories. He's also a gamer.
* **Emily Carroll**
* **Angela Carter** - Author of "The Bloody Chamber." The resident feminist and strong independent woman.
* **Gina & Annette Cascone**
* **Scott Cawthorn** - Creator of game "Five Nights at Freddys."
* **Adam Cesare** - Author of "Clown in a Cornfield." One of the "young cool kids," along with Grady Hendrix and Joe Hill. Has a youtube channel called "No! Adults! Allowed!"
* **Michael Chabon** - Author of "The God of Dark Laughter."
* **Robert W Chambers** - Author of "The Repairer of Reputations."
* **Chillz** - Horror listicle youtuber.
* **Virginia Clemm** - Edgar Allan Poe's suspiciously underage girlfriend.
* **Ernest Cline** - Author of "Ready Player One."
* **John Clute**
* **Nancy Collins**
* **Francis Ford Coppola** - Director of "Bram Stoker's Dracula."
* **Bruce Coville** - Author of "My Teacher is an Alien."
* **Wes Craven** - Director of "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
* **David Cronenberg** - Director of "The Fly" and "The Brood." Roommates with David Fincher and David Lynch, in a sitcom called "Dave, Dave & Dave"
* **Aleister Crowley** - Occultist and author of "Moonchild." The resident jock, who often appears in his letterman jacket and pyramid hat. Punctuates his statements by yelling "THE GREAT BEAST!" and "DO WHAT THOU WILT!" Dating both Leah Hirsig and Victor Neuburg but mostly obsessed with winning back his ex Sonia Greene.
* **Nick Cutter**
* **Debbie Dadey**
* **Uriah Derick D'Arcy**
* **Roald Dahl** - Author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Gleeful pervert. Really into blueberry inflation. Constantly breaking into perverted tittering: "Tee hee hee!"
* **Mark Z. Danielewski** - Author of "House of Leaves." His speech is rendered in different texts with strikethroughs and footnotes. No one knows how he's able to talk like this.
* **Glenn Danzig**
* **Ellen Datlow**
* **Vox Day** - Sad puppies nazi.
* **David DeCoteau** - Loves dudes showering in tighty whities.
* **August Derleth** - The resident Lovecraft fanboy who likes to remind everyone that "Howard was only as racist as the average man of his time!" Derleth also DMs a regular Call of Cthulhu TTRPG with LaValle, Keene, and Mamatas.
* **Marquis De Sade**
* **Charles Dickens**
* **Thomas Disch** - Text gamer.
* **Larry Dixon** - Always rehabilitating a massive harpy eagle named The Murder of God (whom he calls Pepper for short)
* **Evan Dorkin**
* **Cory Doctorow**
* **Arthur Conan Doyle** - Author of Sherlock Holmes stories. Obsessed with proving that fairies are real. This is a reference to the real life Doyle's reaction to the Cottingley Fairies.
* **Jude Doyle**
* **Leah Bodine Drake**
* **Diane Duane** - Author of Young Wizards book series. Lives inside JK Rowling's ducts and is slowly driving her insane.
* **Lord Dunsany**
* **Robert Eggers**
* **Meg Elison** - Author of "The Pill."
* **Adam Ellis**
* **Warren Ellis**
* **Harlan Ellison** - Tornado of pure animal rage.
* **Ralph Ellison**
* **Guy Endore** - Author of "The Wolfman."
* **Marie Enger**
* **Dennis Etchison** - Obsessed with California.
* **Brad Falchuk** - Co-creator of "American Horror Story." Dude with no short term memory. Having a constant existential crisis. Confuses himself with Ryan Murphy.
* **Philip Jose Farmer** - Author of Riverworld series.
* **John Farris**
* **Gretchen Felker-Martin** - Author of "Manhunt."
* **EM Forster**
* **Lucio Fulci**
* **David Fincher**
* **Dion Fortune** - Occultist. Constantly pushing some sort of woo pyramid scheme.
* **Neil Gaiman** - Author of "American Gods" and "Sandman." Speaks in high-faluting, poetic language to describe simple concepts. Obsessed with mythology.
* **Stephen Gammell** - Artist for "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark."
* **HR Giger** - Artist, designer for the Xenomorph in "Alien."
* **Charlotte Perkins Gilman** - Author of "The Yellow Wallpaper." The real life Perkins advocated that slavery should be reinstituted and many of her appearances reference this belief of hers.
* **Edward Gorey** - Talks and acts as though he is British even though he emphatically insists that he's really American, much to the confusion and suspicion of everyone.
* **Sonia Greene** - Lovecraft's girlfriend. Implied to be a big hentai fan and a total freak in the bedroom. Has in the past dated both Crowley and Anton LaVey, both of whom are obsessed with winning her back.
* **Stephen Gresham** - Obsessed with protecting children.
* **Orrin Grey**
* **Eve Harms** - Author of "Transmuted." Esoteric kabbalah and alchemical occultist.
* **Thomas Harris**
* **Betsy Haynes**
* **Hazel Heald**
* **Lafcadio Hearn** - Resident weeaboo.
* **Grady Hendrix** - One of the "young cool kids," along with Adam Cesare and Joe Hill. Often flipping sick tricks on his skateboard. Backwards hat and sunglasses, an 80s stereotype of a cool kid.
* **James Herbert** - Author of "The Rats."
* **Patricia Highsmith** - Author of Talented Mr. Ripley series. Misanthropic lesbian who loves looking at dames but hates hearing them talk. Much prefers talking to the guys. Obsessed with snails and carries around a moldy cabbage in her purse for her pets.
* **Leah Hirsig** - Crowley's cheerleader girlfriend.
* **William Hope Hodgson**
* **ETA Hoffmann** - Author of "The Sandman."
* **Robert E Howard** - Resident cowboy. Loves Texas. Wears a ten gallon hat and constantly fires off his six shooters while yelling "Don't Mess with Texas!"
* **L Ron Hubbard** - Author of "Battlefield Earth." Con man and huckster. Acts like a slick big city salesman always trying to bamboozle a country rube.
* **Junji Ito** - Comic creator of "Uzamaki." Implied to be vaguely inhuman, capable of weird body horror contortions. Often laughs a weirdly staccato "Ha! Ha! Ha!" laugh.
* **Shirley Jackson** - Author of "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" and "The Haunting of Hill House." Shy nerd who only speaks in mumbles. Taken under Mary Shelley's wing who acts as her mama bear.
* **Winifred Jackson**
* **Brian Jacques** - Author of Redwall book series. Implied to be an actual anthropomorphic mouse. Mostly talks about using implements as a cartoon mouse would i.e. "I use a sardine can for a bed!"
* **Aiden James**
* **Henry James**
* **MR James**
* **Kij Johnson -** Author of "The Fox Woman" and "Fudoki." Weeaboo. A player in Derleth's RPG group, she plays as Verrim Snudge from the Dream Academy. (A reference to Johnson's book "The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe")
* **William Johnstone**
* **Marsha Jones**
* **Stephen Jones**
* **Stephen Graham Jones** - Author of "The Only Good Indians."
* **Franz Kafka** - Author of "The Metamorphosis." Once morose and depressed, Kafka has recently become a staunch and very annoying devotee of "hopepunk."
* **Ronald Kelly**
* **Brian Keene** - Author of "The Complex" and "Earthworm Gods." Obsessed with giant animals. A player in Derleth's RPG group, he plays as the gonzo professor of journalism Dr. Batcountry. (A reference to Keene's book "The Damned Highway")
* **Jack Ketchum** - Resident strong, silent bad ass.
* **Cassandra Khaw**
* **Joe Koch**
* **Owen King** - Stephen King's less favored son. Black sheep and family embarrassment for as yet undetermined reasons. Described somewhat like the child in 'Born of Man and Woman.' Implied to have been conceived while Stephen King was in his Richard Bachman persona.
* **Tabitha King** - Stephen King's girlfriend.
* **Dean Klein**
* **Eric Knudsen**
* **Mercedes Lackey**
* **Joseph Sheridan La Fanu**
* **John Langan -** Author of "The Fisherman." Obsessed with fishing. Wears waders, gilligan hat, and a I'D RATHER BE FISHING shirt.
* **Joe Lansdale**
* **Eric LaRocca** - Author of "You've Lost a Lot of Blood" and "Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke."
* **Victor LaValle** - Author of "The Ballad of Black Tom" and "The Changeling." A player in Derleth's RPG group, he plays as Harlem hustler Sweet Sweetbreads. (A reference to LaValles' book "The Ballad of Black Tom")
* **Anton LaVey**
* **Edward Lee** - Author of the Infernal City book series. Resident frat bro and ladies man. Loves boobs. Often collaborates with Neil Gaiman to coach Lovecraft on getting dates.
* **Ursula Le Guin**
* **Jessica Leonard**
* **Ira Levin**
* **CS Lewis** - Author of Narnia book series. Furry. Usually tells stories at Unicorn Fuck Club.
* **Matthew "Monk" Lewis** - One of Mary Shelley's Original Goth gang members.
* **Bentley Little**
* **Thomas Ligotti** - Author of "The Last Feast of Harlequin." Affectless weirdo. Has completely stoic and level responses to any situation.
* **Frank Belknap Long** - Resident furry.
* **Brian Lumley**
* **David Lynch** - Can only communicate with a single phrase, "The Deep of the Dark, the Eyes of the Snail." This is a reference to the Woodsman's radio broadcast in Twin Peaks.
* **Jennifer Lynch** - Said to resemble a swaddled fetal rabbit, a reference to the Eraserhead baby.
* **Arthur Machen**
* **Josh Malerman**
* **Ronald Malfi**
* **Nick Mamatas** - A player in Derleth's RPG group, he plays as the freaky beatnik Groovio Daddio. (A reference to Mamatas' book "Move Under ground")
* **Richard Matheson**
* **Robert Marasco**
* **Robert Marsh**
* **GRR Martin** - Author of Saga of Fire and Ice book series. Usually tells stories at Unicorn Fuck Club.
* **Robert McCammon**
* **Todd McFarlane**
* **Seanan McGuire**
* **Shane McKenzie** - Author of "Toilet Baby."
* **Elizabeth Moon** - SIGMA member.
* **Alan Moore** - Referred to as The Archmagus, Moore is a D&D style wizard.
* **Morojo** - Forrest J Ackerman's silent bodyguard.
* **Grant Morrison**
* **Ryan Murphy** - Co-creator of "American Horror Story." Dude with no short term memory. Having a constant existential crisis. Confuses himself with Brad Falchuk.
* **Andres Muschietti**
* **Kim Newman** - Author of "Anno Dracula." Resident prankster and comedian.
* **Carlton Mellick III** - Author of "Quicksand House" and "The Haunted Vagina." Resident weirdo.
* **Victor Neuburg** - Nerd. Throws random Prof. Frinkisms like "flayvin glayvin!" into his speech. Secretly Crowley's boyfriend but Crowley won't admit to dating a nerd, so often gets shoved into lockers.
* **Larry Niven** - Head of Sigma, a shadowy cabal of science fiction writers who control the world from behind the scenes.
* **Joyce Carol Oates** - Always showing off her diseased foot. This is in reference to that time on Twitter that she posted a photo of her diseased foot.
* **Nobuhiko Obayashi**
* **Sara Northrup**
* **Fitz James O'Brien** - Resident stoner and drug dealer.
* **Aimee Ogden**
* **Oliver Onions**
* **John Padgett**
* **Chuck Palahniuk** - Author of "Fight Club."
* **Jack Parsons**
* **Jordan Peele** - Director of "Us" and "Get Out."
* **Christopher Pike**
* **Wendy Pini** - Creator of Elfquest.
* **Hailey Piper** - Author of "Queen of Teeth" and "The Worm and His Kings." Loves to make horror "gay as fuck."
* **John William Polidori**
* **Philip Pullman** - Author of His Dark Materials book series. Frequently seen with JK Rowling, who refers to him as "wormtail." Confused by gender topics, often replying "gosh!" or "golly!" when Rowling attempts to sway him to terfdom.
* **Puppetcombo**
* **Lisa Quigley**
* **Horacio Quiroga** - Author of "The Decapitated Chicken."
* **Stephanie Rabig**
* **Ann Radcliffe** - One of Mary Shelley's Original Goth gang members.
* **Edogawa Ranpo**
* **Anne Rice** - Author Lestat the vampire book series. Vampire fangirl.
* **Richard Roberts** - Author of "Sweet Dreams are Made of Teeth" and "Wild Children."
* **Betty Rocksteady** - Author of "Arachnophile" and "In Dreams We Rot." Obsessed with fucking bugs and vintage cartoons.
* **George Romero** - Director of "Night of the Living Dead." Resident leftist and socialist.
* **Rachel Rooney**
* **Alexandra Rowland** - Hopepunker.
* **JK Rowling** - Author of Harry Potter book series. Resident transphobe. Apparently some sort of snake human hybrid à la Voldemort. Speaks in sibilant hisses. Has a Scottish castle with a 4 foot fence around the perimeter (a reference to a news article that listed a 4 foot fence as one of Rowling's security measures against protesters who apparently could not scale 4 feet) and also has Diane Duane living in her ducts. Often holds meetings with a rotating gang of TERF death eaters that includes Kathleen Stock, Graham Linehan, Tatsyua Ishida, Nina Paley, and Jesse Singal. Introduces herself at club meetings with "Hello children." Has a very weary agent named Lydia.
* **Don Sakers**
* **Saki**
* **Richard Sala**
* **Mary Sangiovanni** - Obsessed with boobs.
* **Sarban**
* **John Saul** - Obsessed with killing children.
* **Richard Scarry** - Author of Busytown book series.
* **Ben Shapiro**
* **Mary Shelley** - Author of "Frankenstein." Resident badass goth. Introduces herself at club meetings with "Sup, Fuckers?" Dating Percy Shelley. Hangs in a gang of "Original Goths" with Ann Radcliffe and Matthew "Monk" Lewis. Protective of Shirley Jackson. Hates nerds, loves punching nerds.
* **Percy Shelly** - Mary Shelley's henpecked boyfriend. Mostly just says "Yes, dear" in response to anything.
* **Jessi Sheron** - Creator of The Other Happy Place.
* **Gail Simone**
* **Dan Simmons** - Author of "The Terror." Resident right winger and alt-right loon.
* **Jonathan Sims**
* **Skelehime**
* **Danger Slater**
* **William Sleator**
* **Slimyswampghost** - Artist and creator of Sirenhead.
* **Carl Ashton Smith**
* **Guy Smith** - Obsessed with crabs. Says his wife, Cynthia, was stolen by crabs.
* **Lucy Snyder**
* **RL Stine** - Author of Goosebumps book series. Ventriloquist, often performs an act with a dummy called Knothead.
* **Bram Stoker** - Author of "Dracula." Extremely closeted, sex-repulsed.
* **Matthew Stokoe** - Author of "Cows."
* **Kris Straub -** Creator of Ichor Falls, Local 58, and Candle Cove. Something Awful goon.
* **Whitley Strieber** - Author of "Communion." Conspiracy theorist.
* **Koji Suzuki**
* **Jan Svankmajer**
* **Amy Tan** - A member of Stephen King's band, the Rockbottom Remainders.
* **Yvette Tan**
* **Chuck Tingle** - Just Completely normal. Greets everyone with "Hello, chums."
* **JRR Tolkien** - Author of Lord of the Rings book series. Like all fantasy writers, completely obsessed with writing about feasts. Also loves nordic sagas and ancient linguistics. Usually tells stories at Unicorn Fuck Club.
* **Tom Tryon** - Author of "Harvest Home."
* **Keiichiro Toyama**
* **Catherynne Valente**
* **Lucifer Valentine** - Director of "Slaughtered Vomit Dolls."
* **Gore Verbinski** - Director of "The Ring" and "A Cure for Wellness."
* **Jeff Vandermeer** - Author of "Annihilation." Obsessed with backyard wildlife.
* **Ursula Vernon -** Author of "The Twisted Ones" and "The Hollow Places." Farmer.
* **Tim Waggoner**
* **Patricia Wallace**
* **Ed & Lorraine Warren** - Scooby Doo-style ghost hunters. Extremely Catholic.
* **Manly Wade Wellman** - Author of Silver John stories. Pow wow witch doctor.
* **Chuck Wendig** - Author of "The Book of Accidents."
* **Dennis Wheatley**
* **Joss Whedon**
* **Wrath James White** - Reddit atheist.
* **Colin Wilson**
* **F Paul Wilson**
* **Gahan Wilson**
* **Christopher Wright** - Author of American Chillers series.
* **Stephanie Wytovich**
* **BR Yeager**
* **YB Yeats**
* **Brian Yuzna** - Director of "Society."
* **Rob Zombie**

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