When you watch a Mike Flanagan series, there are a few things you know to expect: bone-chilling scares, emotional wounds, and gorgeously-written, eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous ly-perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding med monologues. Often, you can find all of those things at once – a Mike Flanagan monologue tends to run the gamut from horrifying to hopeful to heartbreaking in a matter of minutes; see Midnight Mass, The Haunting Of Hill House, or Bly Manor in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some of the most elegant, excellent character speeches of recent years. But while the religious context of Midnight Mass lent itself to regular sermons from the Flanagan pulpit, his teen-centric new series The Midnight Club is shooting in/with regard to’concerning’regarding something different.###The next Flanagan-Netflix miniseries is an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s novel, with regards to’concerning’with respect to a group of terminally ill teens at a hospice who meet in the middle of the night to share spooky stories (and who make a pact that the first among them to die will try to contact the rest from the ‘other side’). And given that it skews intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully mildly’faintly younger than some of Flanagan’s other recent work, he’s tweaking his token atures somewhat. “One of the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous things we assumed was that the younger viewers could handle scares,” he tells Empire in the Glass Onion issue – but if the frights are as full-blooded as ever, the propensity in/with regard to’concerning’regarding extended verbal solos has been toned down. “I wouldn’t subject a viewer of The Midnight Club to an eight-minute monologue,” he says.###Don’t go claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate ing that The Midnight Club – featuring a largely-unknown young cast, starring alongside Nightmare On Elm Street legend Heather Langenkamp and Midnight Mass alumni Zach Gilin/with regard to’concerning’regarding d and Samantha Sloyan – will be Flanagan-lite. In keeping with Pike’s text, this isn’t a kiddie affair. “His work was hugely in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mative in/with regard to’concerning’regarding me,” Flanagan explains. “He wrote some pretty advanced stuff in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his younger readers, and it was not at all uncommon in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his teenage characters to die, pretty shockingly. His reserve s were full of things I found really exciting and thrilling and dark. So I became a bit of an addict.” In a matter of weeks, we’ll all be hooked too.###Read Empire’s full The Midnight Club story in the Glass Onion issue – on sale now and available to order online here. The Midnight Club comes to Netflix from 7 October.