It’s the night of the full moon, and someone forgot to lock up Stephen King securely. Now Steve’s evil alter ego, Richard Bachman, has escaped! The Pals have no choice but to hear his murder clown hotel story.

CAST 

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

with 

• Bill – BRAD BARNES 
• Beverly – RAYNA MANDARA 
• Ben – TENEST TANG 
• Richie – JOEL A.S. BUTLER 
• Mr Penny/Clown – DEXTER HOWARD 
• additional voices by HANNAH BROWN and LORETTA CHANG 

Script by Brad Barnes, edited by Bitter Karella and Robin Johnson. Production, audio editing, music and sound design by Robin Johnson. The dialogue editor was Liselle Nic Giollabháin.

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

Content notes: This episode contains raised voices, loud noises, gory noises, swearing, violence and threats of violence, sexual references, and references to vomit, fatphobia, racism, addiction, and clowns.

"Richard Bachman" was a pseudonym used secretly by Stephen King early in his career, in order to release "off-brand" books, the first of which was 1977's Rage. The identity was revealed in 1985, by which time five novels had been written under that name, four of which were then republished together as the collection The Bachman Books; "Bachman" has produced two more books since then. Rumors that Bachman is the true father of Stephen's second son Owen King are wholly unsubstantiated.

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