While you wait for Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club” series, Christopher Pike‘s original book from 1994 is getting a Netflix tie-in re-release, we’ve learned this morning.
The novel follows a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality. The new edition arrives September 20, 2022 from Simon & Schuster.
Originally published in 1994, The Midnight Club has timeless appeal as it deals with very real horrors in life.
As Flanagan recently shared in a piece with Vanity Fair, “The Midnight Club was a particular shock to me as a teenager because I thought I was getting this pulpy little YA novella that would be about a spooky Grim Reaper or something. But no, it was about teenagers having to reconcile with terminal diseases and with death. And it didn’t pull its punches there either. It was a real lesson in how you could use genre to talk about very serious things.”
The Midnight Club will be available both in trade paperback and e-book.
You can read the full story synopsis below…
Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people—a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure.
Every night at twelve, a group of young guys and girls at the hospice came together to tell stories. They called themselves the Midnight Club, and their stories could be true or false, inspiring or depressing, or somewhere in-between.
One night, in the middle of a particularly scary story, the teenagers make a secret pact with each other, which says, “The first one who dies will do whatever he or she can do to contact us from beyond the grave, to give us proof that there is life after death.”
Then one of them does die…
Christopher Pike is a bestselling author of young adult novels. The Thirst series, The Secret of Ka, and the Remember Me and Alosha trilogies are some of his favorite titles. He is also the author of several adult novels, including Sati and The Season of Passage. Pike currently lives in Santa Barbara, where it is rumored he never leaves his house.
But he can be found online at Facebook.com/ChristopherPikeBooks.
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