Throughout October, we'll be releasing weekly teaser mini-episodes of Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals in the run-up to the launch of our first full episode on Tuesday October 31st. In this teaser, San Francisco hipster Robert Louis Stevenson tells the Pals his short economics-horror story "The Tale of the Bottle Imp".  

CAST: 

• Robert Louis Stevenson – DEXTER HOWARD
• Edgar Allan Poe – RODRIGO BORGES
• HP Lovecraft – ROBIN JOHNSON
• Dean Koontz – WREN MONTGOMERY
• Mary Shelley – REBECCA D'SOUZA
• Clive Barker – SISTER INDICA

Script and production by Robin Johnson. The Midnight Pals is created by Bitter Karella. All characters are fictitious, especially the real ones. 

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" appears in his short story collection Island Nights' Entertainments, which is available on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/329. 

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A transcript of this teaser is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/teaser-09-robert-louis-stevenson/transcript