It’s Edgar’s turn with the flashlight… but, after a heated debate about what makes a better plot device, the death of a beautiful woman or a murderous monkey, little Dean Koontz ends up telling tonight's story instead. It has everything—an all-American Special Army Marine, a poorly written neurodivergent lady, an evil mutagenic monkey who's escaped from science, and a VERY good dog! 

Content notes: swearing, loud noises, some sexual references, comedic violence with some gory noises and gunfire, discussion of death and 'fridging' of women, police/fed raids, references to animal testing, drug references, parody of bad neurodivergence representation. 

CAST:  

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

with 

• Travis/Dario Argento — DEXTER HOWARD 
• Nora — BETH LINDLY 
• Lemuel Johnson/David DeCoteau — BRAD BARNES 
• Scientist 1 — LORETTA CHANG 
• Scientist 2 — KATE DAVOLI 
• Priest — TERRI LYNNE HUDSON 
• Roger Corman — BITTER KARELLA 
• Charles Band — JOEL A.S. BUTLER 

and special guests 

• THE MURDER MONKEY as itself 
• MULTIPLE DOGS, including REBEL, MAISIE, and various freely licensed hounds of Freesound, as Einstein 

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

Dean Koontz's novel Watchers (1987) really is a story about a really cool smart dog who befriends an ex-military hero and his naive new bride, and how they protect each other from the dog's nemesis, a murderous genetically engineered mutant baboon. The book is credited with establishing Koontz as a bestselling author, and has been adapted into no fewer than four (4) movies. It is unknown whether his mom keeps a copy on the fridge. 

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

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