Oct 29, 2022
9 min read
Horror and Metafiction in “The Midnight Club”
The opening scene metafictionally frames Mike Flanagan’s TV adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 90s YA novel, The Midnight Club. Ilonka, graduating from high school at the top of her class, is rehearsing a speech:
We are the authors of our own stories.
Sure, we can’t always control the plot, but we can decide who we want to be.
