Midnight Pals: An Evening with Charles (Patreon)

Neil Gaiman: i should like to invite you all to an evening of spleniferous whimsy and unearthly magic Gaiman: [handing flier to Poe] for I, Neil Gaiman, shall be performing my world renowned Charles Dickens impressionPoe: [reading flyer] "Sunday Sunday don't stay home"Poe: "Elevated theater at the monsterdome"Poe: "opening act: charles dickens"

Charles Dickens: neil gaiman's doing a reading of my work in character?Poe: oh yeah i hear its real goodDickens: well, i'll be the judge of that!Dickens: what's he reading? captain murderer?Poe: i think it's going to be a christmas carolDickens:Dickens: yeah ok i guess you could read that

Poe: guys do you think that neil will include grip in his showBarker: i don't know, maybePoe: i really hope he includes GripPoe: i really love gripBarker: uh huhPoe: she talks you knowBarker: yes edgar we know we were all here for that

Gaiman: welcome friends to an evening of whimsy, an evening of wonderGaiman: as you enter the fantastical imaginarium of charles dickensGaiman: where you can be anything!Gaiman: as long as you can imagine it!

Gaiman: and now watch, gentle viewersGaiman: as i create an enduring christmas classic from the merest wisps of fantasyGaiman: born of the very stuff of the cosmos -- the power of imagination!Poe: what do you think?Dickens: this is exactly rightDickens: that is exactly how i did it

Gaiman: ah Grip my constant companion, consort to gods and monsters alike, messenger of odin on velvet wingsPoe: [pointing and whispering to charles dickens] that's gripDickens: [annoyed] I know

Gaiman: from my pen shall spill the words of the ages! a tapestry of strange delights, the dreams of the sages!Gaiman: but hark! what noise do i hear at my door? Gaiman: is it the dark forboding spectre of hans christian andersen?Dickens: whoa no one told me this show was gonna be scary!!