![]() ![]() ![]() For its first season, The Midnight Club housed adaptations of Pike’s novels, The Wicked Heart (1993), Gimme a Kiss (1988), See You Later (1990), Witch (1990), Road to Nowhere (1993), and The Eternal Enemy (1993). Eschewing the mystery/monster-of-the-week format of Are You Afraid… and Goosebumps, Mike Flanagan developed the plot as a means to showcase other novels by Christopher Pike. The format of the show allowed for more than just a handful of ghost stories taken from the book to be adapted for the screen. At night, they gather in a hidden library to tell ghost stories, but there is a larger story at work - for the teenagers begin to experience spooky phenomena and learn of a cult that used to meet in the building. The Midnight Club followed the basic premise of its source novel, which centers around a group of teenagers who are dealing with terminal illnesses and are living out the rest of their days in a big, old hospice building. It seemed like a surefire hit just waiting to happen. It made perfect sense for Netflix to put out another show, based on another popular YA horror series. The trilogy proved to be a smash hit, and already has a follow-up greenlit. ![]() Stine’s prolific - and ongoing - Fear Street horror novels, the first of which was published in 1989. ![]() Fast-forward to 2021, when a movie trilogy premiered on Netflix, based on R. ![]()
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