The Pals visit JRR Tolkien and his fantasy storytelling friends at Unicorn F*** Club, where Angela Carter puts a modern, feminist spin on a traditional fairy tale. Hans Christian Andersen is smitten. Frank Belknap Long gets stuck in his fursuit. 

Content notes: Swearing, violence, allusion to sexual assault, vomit, gory noises, people being eaten, sex. 

CAST:  

• Clive Barker — DAVID AULT 
• Edgar Allan Poe/JRR Tolkien — RODRIGO BORGES 
• Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA 
• HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON 
• Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY 
• Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON 

with 

• Angela Carter/Mother — NICOLETTA GIUSEFFI 
• Little Red Riding Hood — TENEST TANG 
• Wolf — LUPO 
• Woodcutter — DEXTER HOWARD 
• Grandmother — TERRI LYNNE HUDSON 
• CS Lewis — JOEL A.S. BUTLER 
• Hans Christian Andersen — BRAD BARNES 
• Frank Belknap Long — DAVID COURT 

Script by Nicoletta Giuseffi, edited by Bitter Karella and Robin Johnson. Audio production and music by Robin Johnson. 

Angela Carter (1940-1992) was a feminist poet, journalist and author known for her fantasy and picaresque novels and stories. She wrote several versions of Little Red Riding Hood, including "The Werewolf", "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice", all of which are included in her excellent collection of feminist retellings of folk- and fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber (1979). "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1984. 

A transcript of this episode is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the-tale-of-little-red-riding-hood/transcript

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