The Netflix series The Midnight Club is set in a mysterious seaside hospice where teens

with terminal conditions spend their final days.

The facility, called Brightcliffe, is a gothic mansion outfitted with the dark history, secret

rooms, ghosts who supply plenty of jump scares, and a strange tradition.

The teenage patients gather in the library every midnight to tell each other scary stories.

The result is both a straight ahead horror show and a stealth anthology series.

I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about The Midnight Club on Pop Culture Happy

Hour from NPR.

Joining me today is Valtteri TV critic Roxana Hadadi.

Welcome back Roxana.

Thank you so much.

And also with us is our horror maven, Jordan Krushyola.

She is a writer and producer and the host of the podcast Feeling Scene on Maximum Fun.

Welcome back Jordan.

Thank you so much for having back on.

I'm always thrilled for the occasion to discuss Mike Flanagan.

Absolutely.

So let's get to it.

The Midnight Club comes from Mike Flanagan.

As you mentioned, he has produced three horror series for Netflix, The Haunting of Hill House,

a modern retelling of a Shirley Jackson novel, The Haunting of Blime Manor based on Henry

James' The Turn of the Screw, and the Vampire series Midnight Mass from an original idea

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