It's winter at the campfire, and that means one thing—snow-themed holiday special! The Midnight Pals are visited by Junji Ito, adorable catboy and terrifying master of fucked-up-face-filled manga horror, accompanied by original weeaboo Lafcadio Hearn. The pair narrate an ancient Japanese folktale of ripped samurai, distressed noblewomen, and seasonal ice-demons. Lafcadio helps Junji out by using his insightful perspective as a Greek-Irish academic to explain Japanese tradition and culture. HP Lovecraft nearly has an aneurysm.

Content notes: swearing, raised voices, sexual references, discussion of racism and appropriation, violence, death, references to guns.

CAST: 

• Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES
• Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA
• Clive Barker — SISTER INDICA
• Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY
• Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON
• HP Lovecraft/Lafcadio Hearn — ROBIN JOHNSON

with 

• Junji Ito/Osamu Tezuka — TENEST TANG
• Lord Fujiwara — JON GUTIERREZ
• Lady Minamoto — NICOLETTA GIUSEFFI
• Snow-child — CHIBI
• Naoko Takeuchi — LORETTA CHANG
• Kouta Hirano — JOHN SERRANO

Script by Lou Sutcliffe, edited by Bitter Karella and Robin Johnson. The Japanese sensitivity reader was Minaro Kato-Hopkins, and the Irish accent and swearing coach was Liselle Nic Giollabháin. 

Lafcadio Hearn's translation of the Japanese folktale "Yuki-Onna" (The Snow Woman) is included in his collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, which is available from Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1210

A transcript of this episode can be found at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/s01e07-the-tale-of-the-snow-woman/transcript

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