Each one is used as individual stories that the terminal teens tell one another in their secret society meetings at Brightcliffe Home hospice. Wanting to honor even more of Pike's large library of beloved titles, the pair got the rights to include several more of Pike's books and fold those stories into the main spine of the series. Time and fate finally caught up to the dream, as Flanagan and his producing partner Trevor Macy turned The Midnight Club into a Netflix series for Netflix which premiered on Oct. He got nowhere with the right but he never gave up.

In fact, one of those readers was writer/director Mike Flanagan ( Midnight Mass) who, as a college grad, wanted to adapt Pike's 1994 novel, The Midnight Club, into a movie. But using the supernatural powers at her command, and risking her own life plus the lives of her friends, Julia will find the answers to all these questions, at a terrible cost.If you're a Gen Xer or Millennial, there's a good chance you grew up reading the YA novels of Christopher Pike. His horror and thriller titles, like Slumber Party (1985), Witch (1990), and The Visitor (1995), amongst many others, were books that transitioned generations of young readers into the more adult worlds of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice.

She doesn't know why the gunman in her vision evokes such hatred in her, and why she feels she must destroy him at all costs. Or does he have to die? Julia doesn't know if her vision of the future is set, or if it can be changed. He does not belong to her and he is supposed to die. Julia immediately falls for the guy, but it is an ill-fated love. Only later, when Julia attends a football game at school, does she meet the young man. What she sees is a vision of the future, a scene in which a young man she doesn't know is shot in a hold-up and dies in her arms. Unfortunately, almost by accident, Julia does. But before Julia's mother died, she warned her daughter never to look in water that had moonlight shining on it. She comes from a tradition of witches-good witches. She also knows things that are happening in far-off places when she looks in water that has sunlight shining on it. She has the ability to heal people with her touch.

See images for the condition of this book.īlurb: Julia is a young woman with extraordinary powers. Condition: Good: Good condition for a used book! Some wear.

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