Papier-mâché blockbuster filmmaker Roger Corman arrives at the Pals' campfire with a proposition to adapt one of HP Lovecraft's novellas into a movie of an Edgar Allan Poe story, in our latest teaser micro-episode. Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals' first seasonbegins releasing full episodes weekly from October 31st. 

CAST 

• ROGER CORMAN – Bitter Karella
• EDGAR ALLAN POE – Rodrigo Borges
• DEAN KOONTZ – Wren Montgomery
• HP LOVECRAFT – Robin Johnson
• CLIVE BARKER – Sister Indica
• MARY SHELLEY – Rebecca D'Souza

Script and production by Robin Johnson, including material adapted from tweets by Bitter Karella. 

Notes concerning Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe's HP Lovecraft's The Haunted Palace: The real-life Roger Corman did indeed make a movie adaptation of Lovecraft's short novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward which was released under the title Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace (1963) so that it could be marketed as part of Corman's infamous "Poe Cycle". Edgar Allan Poe did write a six-stanza poem called The Haunted Palace, which has nothing in common with Corman's movie except that Vincent Price's character quotes four lines of it at some point for no particular reason. Poe's name is misspelled as "Edgar Allen Poe" in the film's credits. It's Corman in his most truly Cormanic episode.

Midnight Pals characters are written as parodies and do not necessarily represent their real-life counterparts.

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