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Midnight Mass : If you love the miniseries
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items Taking a modern approach to centuries-old legends, Flanagan's third horror series on Netflix focuses more on the religious mythology rather than the classic symbols like wooden stakes, garlic, high-collared capes, and crucifixes.
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Midnight Mass Real Meaning Explained
Midnight Mass: Did Beverly Keane Murder Father Pruitt?
The Biggest Unanswered Question From Midnight Mass
Stephen King Books To Read If You Enjoy Midnight Mass
Shirley Jackson Books To Read If You Enjoy Midnight Mass
Reading List After Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass Real Meaning Explained
Midnight Mass is a reminder that vampire TV shows don't need to be sexed-up soap operas
Throughout Midnight Mass, Father Pruitt (Hamish Linklater) refers to the creature as an angel, quoting appropriate scripture to explain its existence as a portent of the Lord. He seems completely certain of its providence, despite the fact that vampi...
Angel vs Vampire: What Was Midnight Mass' Monster?
While Midnight Mass' ending appears to be ambiguous in terms of the vampire's fate, because its death is not seen on screen, there is a major hint that the creature dies as Erin intends out over the bay. Leeza and Warren discuss the creature's slashe...
Leeza Losing Feeling In Her Legs Reveals The Angel's Death
Prior to the reveal of Pruitt's identity and the monster, Midnight Mass leans heavily into Riley's addiction as the main thrust of the story. There are parallels between his addiction - or more pertinently his journey to healing - with the state of t...
Why Midnight Mass Is So Focused On Addiction
The first time Erin is asked by Riley what she thinks happens after death, her response is one of sentimental faith and hope, as she expresses her desire to see her lost child again. Her response feels like a rebuttal to the cynical scientific respon...
Erin's Sacrifice & Her Prediction Of Death Explained
At the end of the finale, as the sun comes up and the infected townspeople accept their deaths, Riley's parents begin to sing a hymn - "Nearer, My God, To Thee" - which the entire crowd sing in unison as they are killed. The hymn should be familiar t...
Midnight Mass' Ending Song: What Does It Mean?
Despite the bloodlust that takes over the townspeople in the wake of the titular Mass, some of those who are turned refuse to attack their fellow residents and drink their blood. It's an intriguing development, given the perceived lack of control of ...
Why Some People Didn't Drink Blood After Turning
Fittingly, given the lesser focus on jump-scares and blatant horror elements in comparison to Hill House and Bly Manor, Midnight Mass is far more than just a creepy horror. It deals with humanity as almost a defiant construct, pertinently set in a co...
Midnight Mass' Real Meaning & Happy Ending Explained
Midnight Mass: Did Beverly Keane Murder Father Pruitt?
Midnight Mass never explained what caused Father Paul Hill’s (initial) death, but one theory claims it could have been the show’s villain Bev Keane who killed him and if that's the case, many wonder "why did Bev poison Father Paul?"
The biggest and most obvious clue to who (temporarily) killed Father Paul is the circumstances in which Joe Collie’s pet dog died. The dog “accidentally” consumed the dangerous poison that Bev Keane had access to, and both Joe and the local Sheriff a...
Bev Keane Poisoned The Dog Pike
Bev was upset when Pruitt didn't return from his long-awaited trip to the Holy Land and was openly critical of Father Paul Hill when he acted as the Monsignor’s replacement. Viewers could reasonably infer that, due to the Monsignor’s dementia, Bev ma...
Bev Keane Was Jealous Of Paul Hill
Joe Collie’s story about the town receiving sizable settlements from an oil company and being convinced to donate them to the construction of the Monsignor Pruitt Recreation Centre (and, by proxy, give control of the cash directly to Bev) indicates s...
Bev Keane Was Using Father Pruitt (Before & After His Death)
In episode 3, Father Paul Hill falls violently ill during a meeting with Wade and his wife where Bev is also present. However, earlier scenes explain the method and motives for Bev Keane's poisoning of Father Paul Hill. Like The Haunting of Hill Hous...
How & Why Bev Killed Pruitt
The theory that Bev Keane is responsible for the bizarre "death" of Father Paul Hill/Monsignor Pruitt holds water — and it makes the show better. The poisoning of Joe Collie's dog was inferred, but never fully resolved. After a second watch, it's obv...
How The Bev Keane Father Pruitt Murder Makes The Show Better
The Biggest Unanswered Question From Midnight Mass
It is probably safe to say that Bev Keane is a cold-blooded murderer of dogs.
Bev complains that Pike and Joe are both menaces and that the sheriff ought to do something about them. One episode later, Pike is dead from rat poison that Bev apparently put out to take care of a rodent problem on the island. Joe believes Bev inten...
Did Bev Keane intentionally kill Joe Collie's dog Pike?
Stephen King Books To Read If You Enjoy Midnight Mass
"Midnight Mass" undeniably channels the essence of Stephen King throughout its setting, characters, and narrative. Recognizing the legendary author's influence enhances the appreciation of the series.
Stories about urban, rural, and suburban life are prevalent in pop culture, but narratives about island communities are rare. "Midnight Mass" stands out, with the seclusion of Crockett Island creating a unique environment where characters live apart ...
Dolores Claiborne: A Novel|Paperback
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the loca...
Revival: A Novel|Paperback
Stephen King’s second novel, the classic vampire bestseller ’SALEM’S LOT, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King’s ...
'Salem's Lot|Paperback
On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray metal protrusion she discovers in the ground is part...
The Tommyknockers|Paperback
In the aftermath of a summer storm, terror strikes... David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton, along with many others, head to the local grocery store to stock up on supplies. A strange mist engulfs the town, trapping them insid...
The Mist|Paperback
Years ago, the Overlook Hotel nearly drove young Dan Torrance to madness, as his paranormal ability known as "the shining" opened a portal to unimaginable horrors. Although Dan has matured, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father's legacy of alcoho...
Doctor Sleep|Paperback
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone...
Needful Things: A Novel|Paperback
Shirley Jackson Books To Read If You Enjoy Midnight Mass
A trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, the master of the haunted tale
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," one of the most chilling and haunting stories of the twentieth century, sparked immense controversy upon its publication in 1948. This clear and concise narrative about a small town's annual lottery and the horrific i...
The Lottery and Other Stories (75th Anniversary Edition)|Paperback
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolate...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)|Paperback
After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted sto...
Dark Tales|Paperback
Reading List After Midnight Mass
Explores the same themes that Midnight Mass does with these books
Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact of a single passionate act on the lives of three people: the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth; and the defiant Hester Prynne, who, unwill...
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in th...
The Ministers Black Veil|Paperback
The author drew upon the early Puritan influences that played a major role in the country's history and exploited them through mystery, creativity, science, and witchcraft. Hawthorne wrote with a psychological view of his characters and their motivat...
Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories|Paperback
Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dori...
The Picture of Dorian Gray|Paperback
Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; a...
The Crucible|Paperback