Fans of The Midnight Club, the latest mini-series created for Netflix by Mike Flanagan won’t get to see how the storylines of Ilonka, Kevin, Sandra, Spencer (and the rest) end, because Netflix cancelled the show. Luckily for the fans, though, Flanagan is divulging how it all would have gone down.

“It’s a shame we won’t get to make it, but it would be a bigger shame if you guys simply had to live with the unanswered questions and the cliffhanger ending,” Flanagan wrote in a Tumblr post on Friday. Among the revelations was the fact that season 2 would have been five episodes long, with one devoted to Ilonka telling a story adapted from Christopher Pike’s book Remember Me. (The series is based on the collected works of Pike, who wrote numerous spine-chilling books for young adults.)

The Midnight Club, in case you haven’t caught it yet, is about a group of terminally ill teenagers, living in a remote care facility called Brightcliffe, who gather late at night to tell scary stories to help each other cope with the very real, very imminent threat of death.

Flanagan wrote, “Ilonka (Iman Benson) begins a serialized story in an effort to encourage him (Kevin, her love interest played by Igby Rigney) to “stay alive a little longer,” like he did in season one. And the story she tells is… Remember Me.

Remember Me is one of my all-time favorite Pike books – it tells the story of a teenage girl who is pushed off a balcony, and awakens as a ghost. She has to navigate being a spirit while trying to solve her own murder. We would have stretched this story out over 5 episodes. We were going to use it as a vehicle for Ilonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she is going to die, and to begin to trying to wrap her head around being a ghost… but this is the coolest part… the lead character of Ilonka’s story wouldn’t be played by Ilonka. She’d be played by…Anya (Ruth Codd).

“Most of our original cast now would exist as stories, a story told to the next ‘class’ of storytellers at the table, all of whom we will have met by the end of the season,” Flanagan explained. “A story called ‘The Midnight Club.'”

You can click the link to the post to read Flanagan’s ideas for why Dr. Stanton’s (Heather Langenkamp) has that distinctive tattoo, the secrets behind thee mysterious Paragon cult headed by Shasta (Samantha Sloyan) that has ties to Brightcliffe, as well as the identity of the spooky Shadow figure that seems to come for each character as they are dying, which was the fate for every one of the terminal characters.

As for Flanagan, he’s going to be just fine. He and his producing partner Trevor Macy just announced that their Intrepid Pictures signed an exclusive multiyear overall series deal with Amazon Studios now that their contract with Netflix is ending. Intrepid produced The Haunting of Bly Manor, The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass for Netflix. Their big-screen projects include Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game, each based on a novel by Stephen King, as well as Ouija: Origin of Evil, Before I Wake, Hush, and Oculus, which were all written and directed by Flanagan and produced by Macy.

“Amazon is a studio that we have long admired,” said Flanagan and Macy in a statement. “Their commitment to engaging in groundbreaking series and content aligns with the ethos of what we have built at Intrepid. We are looking forward to working with the entire Amazon team as we bring our brand of genre productions to the service and audiences around the globe.”

Whether the cancellation of The Midnight Club, which happened shortly after that news got out, is related, is something we can only speculate about. Flanagan has one more series pending for Netflix, the limited series The Fall of the House of Usher, based on the Edgar Allan Poe classic, which will premiere in 2023.