Y’know who we’re big fans of here at FANGORIA? Writer/director Mike Flanagan, a guy who’s spent the past decade-plus delivering some of the most memorable, sharply-written horror movies and TV shows in the biz, including Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Oculus.
As such, you can probably guess how excited we were when FANGORIA Magazine popped up in his latest Netflix creation, an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club. Eagle-eyed readers and FANGO fans may have already spotted this particular Easter Egg in the scene below…
See the magazines? There in the back? Computer … enhance.
Yup, there we are! Two pristine copies of FANGORIA Magazine, just waiting in that spinner rack to be picked up and loved by some budding horror fan or maybe just an ominous-looking gentleman in a windbreaker. Anyway, we thought that our readers might enjoy a better look at these faux covers (created, of course, by The Midnight Club‘s art department), so we asked Flanagan if he happened to have any hi-res scans of the images laying around that he might be willing to share with us.
Guess what? He did!
This non-existent issue of FANGORIA has everything: a Killer Clown review, a horrific alien creature with entirely too many eye-holes in its skull, a Halloween horror preview – hell, there’s even a Christopher Pike Easter Egg inside this Easter Egg. So, what’s the other cover look like? We’re glad you asked.
Here we’ve got Killer Clown‘s cover story, that same Christopher Pike Easter Egg-within-an-Easter-Egg, a new round of interviews (David Cronenberg has entered the chat), and … another Halloween horror preview. Maybe in the Midnight Club universe, this particular year’s horror offerings were so plentiful that the preview needed to be spread between two issues? Oh, well. That’s for our fictional Editor-in-Chief, Nill Phobile Sr., to worry about.
And last, but certainly not least, we’ve got a bonus cover to show you which – as far as we can tell! – didn’t actually make it onto the show. A back-up Faux FANGO, if you will. This one’s sort of an amalgamation of the first two, only it features George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead on the cover. Nill Phobile Sr. approves.
At any rate, we wish to thank Flanagan and his team for making us a part of this corner of the Flanaverse. We always love seeing issues of FANGORIA in the wild, even when they’re not entirely real!
The Midnight Club (feat. Faux FANGO) is currently streaming on Netflix.
