Credit: Eike Schroter / NetflixĬared for by head nurse Mark ( Midnight Mass alumni Zach Gilford), the residents all have different diagnoses and form a late-night Breakfast Club of personalities, backgrounds, and stories - Ilonka even makes reference to John Hughes' seminal high school film in episode 1. Yet, even while it brims with the writer-director's almost gleeful reliance on jump scares and slowly unveiling a complex mystery, with The Midnight Club, these deeper conversations are conveyed through a group of young people with terminal illnesses. Flanagan has well established his penchant for wandering extremely haunted halls while exploring what happens after we die through his previous series. And The Midnight Club is no exception.Ĭontinuing the frightening but poignant examinations of death, spirituality, and trauma we've relished in The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass, Flanagan and Leah Fong examine the impermanence of life from a new perspective in their deeply moving adaptation of Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club. Having a frank conversation about mortality and the time we have left doesn't seem like obvious fodder for a Netflix horror series, but Mike Flanagan has long perfected reeling you into the deepest philosophical dialogue while scaring the crap out of you.

The midnight club books in order