What if all your favorite horror writers, artists and creators could come together around the campfire to share their spookiest, creepiest yarns? At @Midnight_Pals, you get an inside look at just such a hypothetical gathering: From Stephen King's dad jokes to H.P. Lovecraft's unfortunately named cat, no aspect of the horror business remains unskewered when these horror maestros -- and some not-so-maestros -- get together!
What do the experts think about the Midnight Pals?
“Oh my God, this is pretty funny!” - Brian Keene, Earthworm Gods, Dark Hollow
"I was one of the authors included in the Midnight Society tweets. Those tweets were unfair, oversimplified my interests, and stung my pride. I'm pretty sure that means this is genius." - Richard Roberts, Wild Children, Quite Contrary
"HUGE NEVER-ENDING ENDORSEMENT. Best entertainment thread in Twitter history!" - Gail Simone, Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Deadpool, Wonder Woman
The @midnight_pals Twitter account has lampooned everyone from Thomas Ligotti to Junji Ito and now we want to collect ALL the best, funniest tweets into one big, solid, physical grimoire that you can put on your shelf in your own personal library and possibly rig up so that when you pull it off the shelf, the shelf spins around to reveal a secret passage to an underground laboratory or forgotten crypt. That's up to you. But we want to provide you with the perfect book to use as the linchpin of that scenario. Something you can enjoy at home with your own cult or coven!
"Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals" will be 80+ pages of non-stop hilarity, assembling every tweet currently posted at @midnight_pals for easy reference with much, more more -- including morbidly fantastic illustrations by David Mumford and an introduction by 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and double Bram Stoker Award winner Brian Keene (author of Earthworm Gods, The Complex, and Dark Hollow)!
Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe and Junji Ito as imagined by our artist David Mumford!
"Okay, these illustrations look pretty amazing," you say, "And I can't wait to hear Brian Keene's thoughts... but... these are tweets? Couldn't I just, like, read them online for free?"
Okay, yes, TECHNICALLY, you could. That's why we're going out of our way to include big loads of bonus content to sweeten the deal. Let's review all the extra stuff you'll be getting...
- Wacky, funny listicles like Thomas Ligotti's Top 5 Seasonal Festivals and H.P. Lovecraft's Top 5 Slurs for Non-New Englanders!
- Fake ads spoofing the classic inserts from 1980s pulp horror paperbacks!
- Some of @Midnight_Pals author Bitter Karella's personal thoughts on the horror genre, since you're all obviously very interested in that!
- The @Midnight_Pals tweets reveal the backstage banter between authors around the fire, but the book will also include some of the "actual" stories they tell as well. That's right, enjoy some stories spoofing the styles of Clive Barker, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and more!
And, of course, the main attraction...
The COMPLETE tweets of @Midnight_pals!
Go ahead and back our book... if you dare!
It only takes a sponsorship of a mere $5 to get your hands on a deliciously decadent e-book PDF version of 'Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals' and a mere $10 to ensure that your name will live on in infamy as a sponsor of highest caliber. But surely what you most desire is the tome itself, the truest, purest physical book version! And, to get that, tis a mere $20 sponsorship. Or $25 if you want it signed by the scribe herself. Is that all? Of course not! At higher levels, you can even get extra goodies...
Have ideas about a particular horror creator that you'd like to see receive the Midnight Pals treatment? You can designate a victim of your choice to be skewered in up to a full page of new tweets for a mere $100 sponsorship. And if you'd like to see a full short story written in the style of your favorite (or least favorite) creator? We've got an option for that too, at the $200 sponsorship level!
But that's not all... why not go for the gusto? Why not live dangerously? Because one lucky sponor will have the opportunity to have the ultimate donor experience, Le Grand Guignol! For $500, you get ALL the perks from the lower tiers plus... a cameo in an upcoming book by Horror Grandmaster Brian Keene! That's right, Brian will write you into one of his damnably dark tales... and have you slaughtered in the most delectable way! You won't want to miss this rare opportunity for horror fiction immortality!
Don't delay another second! Please join us in making this book a reality... and making all your horror dreams... or, as we call them, nightmares... come true!
Bitter Karella posts @midnight_pals tweets, which are whispered in dreams by haunted ventriloquist dummy Junior
Bitter Karella (@bitterkarella) is the writer and horror aficionado behind @Midnight_pals. She's been involved with two successful book Kickstarters in the past, Misunderstanding Comics and Firebrat: The True Meaning of Christmas. She lives in a hut on fowl’s legs in the dark of the deep woods and can be summoned by the sacrifice of a white cockerel on the eve of a new moon.
The bulk of the book is already completed -- 90% written, illustrated, and ready to go! Bitter Karella has experience working with printers -- having already self-published the graphic novel Misunderstanding Comics and various zines -- and has already selected a capable printer with whom she has a long-standing relationship and who she is confident is up to the task! All she needs to start the process is a little bit of help from you, the esteemed backers! In fact, I would say that the biggest risk in this process is that, well, there's some infinitesimally small chance that your book might get lost in the mail on its way to you, I suppose. But if you can't trust the postal system who can you trust?