The Midnight Society
@midnightpals
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
Our own Bitter Karella will be at Authorcon next week! Come see us if you're around, why not?
Waterstones is having a mega deal on some cool books available to pre-order, including Moonflow! Seems like a good idea to me! 🤔 Use the code SUMMER25 at checkout to get 25% off the gooiest, goopiest psychedelic trans slatterpunk gorefest of the summer!
HEY, SACRAMENTO PEEPS!!! our very own bitter karella will be doing a reading and Q&A at Bloodstone Books to celebrate the release of her debut trans splatterpunk novel MOONFLOW on Sept. 4!! you should consider going unless you want to be uncool bloodstonebookshop.com/products/moo...
Come to bloodstone books in Sacramento today if you want an ass kicking!
(Okay, maybe I'm being gauche because I'm in the same issue of Split Scream, BUTTTT Lyndsey Croal's The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes has indeed been nominated for a Shirley Jackson award! You should check it out! linktr.ee/lyndseycroal)
Big ups to everyone who showed up at Babscon 2025 to see our live MLP-themed Midnight Pals reading! Check out this awesome & relevant pic of the ponified pals by @therealakineko.bsky.social !
the next bit is kind of a blur but it was probably something like this
Karella: oh my god! it's the twins from the shining! Karella: how can this be??? Karella: i'm at the doubletree Hilton in Williamsburg Virgina, not the overlook hotel! Karella: oh never mind it's actually just Jamie Flanagan & Rebecca Cuthbert Karella: but i was worried there for a minute
Our own Bitter Karella will be at STC Authorcon all weekend -- you'll know if you see me, I make it my business to be seen! XD
Live Midnight Pals at STC Authorcon was a blast! And look - I got a script signed by the stars! @briankeene.bsky.social , @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @kozeniewski.bsky.social, @texascthulhu.bsky.social and @toddkeisling.com !! 🤩
Reminder! Friends of the Ashland public Library is having a big auction Oct 15-22 with AMAZING swag from over 80 awesome horror writers, including our own Bitter Karella, so check it out!
Come to the authorcon dealers room in the next 15 minutes if you want an ass kicking!
Having trouble understanding this joke? Why, it's about this:
"A Brief History of the Santa Carcossa Archipelago," Bitter Karella (2023)
Schoenbrun: what i am saying is Schoenbrun: there is still time to be your own true authentic self Kafka:
[later] Rowling: hello fellow sssinai award recipients Rowling: how goesss it? Ted Cruz:
Our own Bitter Karella will be at Stokercon! We'll be at the Sensitivity Reads: Writing Outside Your Identity panel on Friday, May 31 at 11:00 am in Salon C and an author reading on Saturday, June 1, 4:00 pm in Salon H! And tabling with Gentlemonster in the dealer's room!
in the longmore story, they used a strip of flesh from the penis head to make a clit and the scrotum to make the labia and i gave it the benefit of the doubt cuz
Just look for the goblin hag! He makes it his business to be easy to spot :)
Just a reminder, our own Bitter Karella will be tabling at Stokercon this month, so if you're there you should drop by and say hi! She's on a panel re sensitivity readers and also doing a reading!
Check it out! Our own @bitterkarella.bsky.social will be half of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social's SPLIT SCREAM V5 this July with the gothic western "The Ballad of Horse Girl!" -- the other half will be @lyndseycroal.bsky.social 's "The Girl with Barnacles for Eyes!"
SUNDAY SUNDAY DON'T STAY HOME!!!! ROBOT GIRLS AT THE MONSTER DOME!!! join us for the premiere of the first episode of the Midnight Pals audio podcast! It's FRANKENSTEIN!
All indiegogo rewards for the Submitted for the Midnight Pals 3 book campaign have now been shipped! Thanks to everyone for your patience! (we're a one goblin operation and this took a lot of time! XP)