YMMV / Midnight Pals

• Harsher in Hindsight: James Herbert's The Rats, brought up in August 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Koontz: gosh james this story about a deadly plague exasperated by administrative incompetence and decades of official neglect for the material conditions of the people
  Koontz: it’s funny it
  Koontz: feels so timely
  Barker:
  Koontz: i can't quite put my finger on it
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Mary Shelley's catchphrase whenever she arrives at the goings-on: "sup fuckers".
  • The fact that Shelley will happily stab anybody with her switchblade.
  • H.P. Lovecraft's freak-out whenever confronted by things that make him uncomfortable^note which is almost everything, but he's really terrified of Italians: the dialog line will describe [sweating intensifies].

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