“I remember wanted Monster, Whisper of Death, and Remember Me,” says Pike, who declined because he wants to preserve these novels for potential future adaptations. But Flanagan and Fong’s adaptation is going all in on the Christopher Pike catalog: Each episode will tell a story from one of his other books, which Pike had a hand in shortlisting. When Pike decided to turn his fan’s nocturnal reading club into the premise for a novel, he knew he couldn’t have the kids discussing his own books within it. He’s spent years trying to make this adaptation happen, and now, it finally has. Flanagan, the creator of Netflix shows like Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House, is a Pike superfan.
The Netflix show is an adaptation of his 1994 horror/mystery novel The Midnight Club, helmed by Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong Pike serves as an executive producer. It’s a huge accomplishment for one of the defining architects of my pre-teen reading experience-a time spent spelunking in second-hand bookstores for his gloriously risque thrillers about murderous love triangles, horny football stars, cursed VCRs, and time-traveling aliens. “But maybe at my 50th anniversary, I'll say, yeah, I had a show on Netflix.” “I thought it was really cool, what she had done,” he says, and I can almost hear him smiling on the other end of the line. I imagine at the 50th anniversary, it will be more intense.” The winner back then was a woman who had become a well-respected surgeon and developed some new medical techniques. At his 20th high school reunion, the last one he attended, “they had a vote for who was the ‘Most Successful’ in life… like a competition.
“I’m curious to see who’s alive and what they did with their lives,” he says But he’s also interested in returning to his suburban LA hometown to admit his poorly kept secret: He’s the author of several best-selling YA novels beloved by teens all through the ’90s and early 2000s. Next summer, at his 50th high school reunion, Christopher Pike thinks he might go and finally say something about what he’s been doing since graduation.
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