When Pike decided to turn his fan’s nocturnal reading club into the premise for a novel, he knew he couldn’t have the kids discussing his own books within it.

He’s spent years trying to make this adaptation happen, and now, it finally has. Flanagan, the creator of Netflix shows like Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House, is a Pike superfan. The Netflix show is an adaptation of his 1994 horror/mystery novel The Midnight Club, helmed by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong Pike serves as an executive producer. It’s a huge accomplishment for one of the defining architects of my pre-teen reading experience-a time spent spelunking in second-hand bookstores for his gloriously risque thrillers about murderous love triangles, horny football stars, cursed VCRs, and time-traveling aliens. “But maybe at my 50th anniversary, I'll say, yeah, I had a show on Netflix.” “I thought it was really cool, what she had done,” he says, and I can almost hear him smiling on the other end of the line. I imagine at the 50th anniversary, it will be more intense.” The winner back then was a woman who had become a well-respected surgeon and developed some new medical techniques. At his 20th high school reunion, the last one he attended, “they had a vote for who was the ‘Most Successful’ in life… like a competition. “I’m curious to see who’s alive and what they did with their lives,” he says But he’s also interested in returning to his suburban LA hometown to admit his poorly kept secret: He’s the author of several best-selling YA novels beloved by teens all through the ’90s and early 2000s. “We were going to use it as a vehicle for Ilonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she is going to die, and to begin to trying to wrap her head around being a ghost,” he wrote, adding that the main character would have been played by Anya, who died in Season 1, to enforce the idea that “even if a character dies, as long as they’re remembered by members of the club, they live on in their stories.”Īnd that is the narrative that the series would have ended on - with Cheri telling the stories of the original cast, a story called The Midnight Club, to a new table of patients.Next summer, at his 50th high school reunion, Christopher Pike thinks he might go and finally say something about what he’s been doing since graduation. The story, which Flanagan called “one of my all-time favorite Pike books,” tells the story of a teenage ghost who is trying to solve her own murder after being pushed off a balcony. There would also have been a new patient to join Brightcliffe Hospice, and Spence would have benefitted from medical advancements regarding HIV treatment to no longer be considered terminal.įlanagan also revealed that one of the stories told in the next installment would have been Christopher Pike’s Remember Me. ‘The Midnight Club’ Canceled By Netflix After One Seasonīy the end of Season 2, Amesh, Natsuki, Kevin and Ilonka would die.

The midnight club book series