The Midnight Extra is the trashy supermarket tabloid where my protagonists work in Dial M for Mutants!. I made a few covers for fun and then kind of got carried away. I post updates to the Midnight Extra Instagram page pretty regularly. Take a look if you’re feeling brave…

 
 
CROCO-CRAZINESS from June, 1983! Crawling from the MUCK of an Orlando swamp, CROCODILE BOY TERRORIZES DISNEY WORLD! Driven mad by the scent of TURKEY LEGS and LARGE RODENTS, the reptile-child RAMPAGES rampages through the parks! - - - - #horrorcommun
ARACHNID ANGER from September, 1980! Fed up over years of misrepresentation, America’s SPIDER-MEN take LEGAL ACTION against Marvel Comics. The famously litigious mutants cry SLANDER and DEFAMATION, demanding immediate changes to the Spider-Man
Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll (and fervent reader of the Midnight Extra), reads of the CATASTROPHIC CLONE CAPER in our issue from April 22, 1979! Though his many handlers tried to keep the news a secret, the King could not be stopped from
CLONE CHAOS from 1979! Lax security and MEMPHIS CHARMS are blamed for a breakout of ELVIS CLONES from a top-secret government lab. Not satisfied with one KING OF ROCK & ROLL, the lab scientists schemed to create an ARMY of swaggering HIT-MAKERS.
TROUBLING NEWS from 1978! The terrible RATIGATORS return to the sewers of New York! Long thought eradicated, the MUTANT RODENTILES crawl from the city waterways and SNAP UP unexpecting citizens! Common RAT SNARES are no use, and ALLIGATOR WRANGLERS g
Congrats @arealactualdragon! The winner of our first ever GIVEAWAY. A signed copy of Dial M for Mutants and a Midnight Extra t-shirt are on their way!
500 FOLLOWERS?? Amazing! Guess it’s time for a SPOOKY GIVEAWAY! The big winner gets a brand new Midnight Extra T-Shirt and a signed copy of DIAL M FOR MUTANTS! Enter today! - 👻 Follow The Midnight Extra 🤖 Tag two friends in the comments 🛸 Li
BREAKING NEWS from 1992! A drought of CHILD SCREAMS leaves the nation’s SCARENTISTS baffled! Spooky studies show that MURDER CLOWNS may be to blame for the falling numbers! The long-suffering clowns report a CERTAIN TV MINISERIES has hardened t
FATHER OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER (and avid reader of The Midnight Extra!), Steve Wozniak poses with our exposé on THE DEMONIC DANGERS OF ARCADE GAMES! Little did WOZ know that his early circuit boards would pave the way to PORTALS OF THE DAMNED
EXCLUSIVE REPORT from 1966! Fed up with growing SCARE-INEQUALITY, the nation’s BOOGEY-WOMEN organize in the FIGHT FOR FAIR FRIGHTS! Standing on the shoulders of the brave SPOOKY-SUFFRAGETTES, the boogey-women make their SCREAMS HEARD! - - - - #
TELE-TERROR from 1993! Anonymous, adolescent readers report DEMONIC FACES appearing among the scrambled signals of LATE NIGHT PREMIUM CABLE! What at first appeared to be wavy, discolored blobs of AMOROUS COUPLES turned out to be something FAR MORE SI
FROM THE ARCHIVES! September, 1965: Sandy Koufax pitches a PERFECT GAME against the Chicago Cubs. When asked, Yankees legend Whitey Ford suggests ALIEN INTERVENTION! “I know those space-things were there for Larsen in ‘56,” said For
NUGGET NIGHTMARE from April,1981! Area man’s fast-food dinner SPIRALED INTO MADNESS when he found a single chicken nugget STILL ALIVE in the box! The half-nugget SCREAMED A WARNING of GENETIC ENGINEERING and fast-food experiments GONE AWRY! Whe
1979: The BLOOD FEUD between apes and monkeys REIGNITES upon the publication of our WERE-BABOON exposé! Facing RIDICULE and SCORN from the chimpanzees, the EVER-VENGEFUL baboons promise SWIFT RETALIATION! The Midnight Extra takes NO RESPONSIBI
PRIMATE PANIC from 1979! Local banana retailers report HORRIFIC ATTACKS from a half-man HALF-BABOON! The creature seems drawn by the FULL MOON and PROWLS the local produce stands. NO FRUIT IS SAFE! Authorities are issuing a strict curfew on all MANGO
LOOK OUT!!! It’s our VERY FIRST BOOK!! Follow two of our INTREPID REPORTERS as they chase down a HORRIFYING MUTANT!! Link in bio... get your copy TODAY! - Brought to you by The Midnight Extra and @matttthorne - - - #horrorcommunity #horrorfan
Has The Midnight Extra VANISHED without a trace?? NO! We’ve just been working on a TOP SECRET PROJECT. Enjoy this horrible MUTANT TEASER for now... full reveal coming soon!! - - - - #horrorcommunity #horrorfan #horrorfanatic #comedyhorror #hor
STUNNED PRESIDENT Richard Nixon reads our EXPLOSIVE REPORT on his UNDEAD ADVISORS! The living advisors surrounding him are SHOCKED AND REPULSED by the news. Just another SCANDAL for the already disgraced Nixon, and the one that would ultimately cause
HORRIFIC DISCOVERY from April, 1992! A team of investigators find SHOCKING EVIDENCE OF GILL MEN causing the Great Chicago Flood! No longer satisfied with life in America’s waterways, the Gill Men set their sights on BIG CITY LIVING! An insatiab
CHILLING REVELATIONS from February 1973! Battling SCANDAL and calls for IMPEACHMENT, a desperate Richard Nixon turns to OCCULT RITUALS for help! Dabbling in the NECROMANTIC ARTS, he summons the RESTLESS DEAD for answers from BEYOND THE GRAVE! They of