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. 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. On November 25, 1996, his book Fall into Darkness was adapted into a television movie of the same name, produced by his company Christopher Pike Productions.If you're a Gen Xer or Millennial, there's a good chance you grew up reading the YA novels of Christopher Pike. Stine's Goosebumps and Fear Street readers turned to for a more mature novel, sitting as the middle ground with Stephen King the level above Pike. Though their peak popularity reigned at the same time, Pike was commonly heralded as the author R.L.

In addition to his Young Adult novels, he has written several Juvenile novels under the Spooksville series title, as well as several adult novels such as his 1990 hit book, Sati. The book was an immediate success and Pike's career as a Young Adult author took off. His first attempt resulted in the 1985 novel Slumber Party, a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. He initially tried his hand at writing science fiction and adult mystery, but later began writing teen thrillers due to an editor's suggestion.

He attended college briefly before dropping out and working various jobs such as house painting and computer programming. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction McFadden was born in New York City in 1955, but grew up in California.

Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of American author Kevin Christopher McFadden.

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