“It’s like having agency over the last days of your life-or what you think are the last days of your life,” he says. Each one stands as its own mini movie within the framework of the show, reflecting the mindset of the ailing kid who tells it. They’re creating their own ghosts, something that they can leave behind after they’re gone.”Īdding numerous other Pike titles to the mix made The Midnight Club more complicated to pull off, but Trevor Macy, Flanagan’s producing partner at Intrepid Pictures, said they were necessary to broaden the scope of the series. “All of us writers, we’re creating-we’re trying to leave behind something and that’s what these kids are doing with their stories. These kids are just facing the prospect of their own end long before most people realize they have to. “You take these teenage issues that are heightened to begin with and then you add mortality to the mix and you have a coming of age that is so acute and immediate,” Fong says. “They sent me a cease and desist letter,” he says. Once it was all in place, he sent the proposal to Pike’s publisher. When he was a college student around three years later, nourishing long-distance Hollywood dreams from Towson University in Maryland, he became convinced that The Midnight Club could be his first feature film.įlanagan wrote a screenplay, and even drafted a business plan, offering friends and family a chance to invest their own money in his low-budget indie. One of the book’s early fans was Flanagan, but back then the eventual force behind the Netflix hits The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass was just another of Pike’s voracious teen readers. They also make a shared promise: If/when any of them die, they will return in some way to prove there is life beyond the one being cut short. In 1994, Pike first published the book about a group of terminally ill teenagers in hospice care who gather every night to exchange frightening stories. His new Netflix series, based on a book by YA novelist Christopher Pike, will debut on October 7, but Flanagan’s original attempt to create was a long, strange odyssey itself, stretching all the way back to the early ’90s and involving a supposedly reclusive author and a sorrowful backstory that few have ever heard. ‘… an important contribution to the social history of Ottoman cities during the early modern period.“This is not the first time that I tried to adapt The Midnight Club,” Mike Flanagan says. A source of fear and insecurity, the night also brought with it the ability to conceal, to know but not to be seen to know, and the space for illicit entertainment and black-market trading.’ ‘Avner Wishnitzer’s illuminating book draws us into the world of darkness. ![]() This is an important milestone for the reconceptualization of Ottoman urban history and political culture.' 'By examining different forms of collective actions at night in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Wishnitzer illustrates surprising links between political actors, such as the Janissaries, artisans and religious orders with rhythms of time between light and dark, silence and sound, loneliness and crowdedness. Engagingly written and based on an impressive mastery of sources, As Night Falls is a social history of night that will appeal to Ottoman historians and early modernists alike.'Įthan L. 'Wishnitzer takes us into dark and ‘benighted’ corners of early modern Ottoman cities, opening up a whole noctural world and its ecology. This work impressively expands the history of sleep and the night beyond Western Europe and North America.' Wishnitzer focuses on the infinite gradations of pre-industrial light and darkness to deepen our understanding of their symbolic and sociological possibilities. 'From nocturnal prayers, drinking parties, and imperial fireworks to analyses of the cost and extent of everyday domestic lighting, this study of the night in Ottoman cities chronicles a vast range of experience. ![]() Powerfully conceived and rigorously researched, As Night Falls not only makes a seismic contribution to our knowledge of Middle Eastern history, but it is also essential reading for anyone with an interest in the forgotten half of everyday life - night’s wonders, perils, and promise, which Wishnitzer probes with clarity and brilliance.' 'One of the most stunning books that I have read in many years.
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