Midnight Club on Netflix: Did you know this club actually existed?

In Midnight Club, Mike Flanagan and his partner Leah Fong throw us into the heart of a hospice for terminally ill teenagers. The latter meet every evening to tell each other horror stories, which quickly turn into an exit.

The series itself is adapted from the novel of the same name by Christopher Pike (real name Kevin McFadden), a youth horror specialist. His bibliography includes no less than thirty books, some of which are haunting stories of teenagers in the midnight club. As a child, Pike’s works influenced Flanagan, it is not enough. And this is not the only one.

In an interview he gave Vanity FairHe, who now lives in seclusion, told a sad anecdote behind the writing of his novel The Midnight Club. Its main character Ilonka (Iman Benson) is inspired by a young girl whom the writer met in the 90s, who was a big fan of his books. When she becomes terminally ill with cancer, she makes one last wish to meet Pike. It will be two weeks.

The young woman will tell them during their interaction that she started the tradition at the hospital where she was staying. In the evening, she met with other sick children to read them scary stories imagined by Christopher Pike. A sort of book club that allowed them to escape in the evening…

To pay homage to him, Pike reimagined The Midnight Club, but changed the story slightly. These characters won’t read his books, but they imagine horrible stories…”She was of Polish origin, so the heroine of my book is called Ilonka Pavluk. He also told me that one of the members was gay, he inspired Spencer’s character“, He reveals it here.

The author offered the young patient to send the chapters as they were written, but the latter preferred to wait until the work was finished. Unfortunately, the young girl doesn’t live long enough to discover a book that honors her…