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## The Third Interlude

### An Excerpt from "The Memoirs of Patrick Midnight"

[1325 Publishing](https://substack.com/@1325publishing)

Jun 04, 2026

Here it is — the final excerpt for the forthcoming MEMOIRS OF PATRICK MIDNIGHT. If you like this work, then please subscribe to NEMESIS for their continuing publication of the latest Midnight & Blackstone novellette. Also, BOLO for the book when it finally drops.

_Also, to truly understand this interlude, please read “ [The Horror of Hollywoodland](https://mansworldmag.online/articles/)” first._

The writer sipped his glass of Scotch and complimented Patrick Midnight on his fine selection of whiskeys.

> “Would you believe that most of this stuff was my father’s?” Midnight said.

... [Excerpt continues with narrative content] ...

> “Here’s the evidence that I tried to make it in the pulps,” he would tell people for years afterward.