A version of this story about “Midnight Mass” and creator Mike Flanagan first appeared in the Documentaries issue of TheWrap magazine.
After using Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” and Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw” as the inspirations for his first two Netflix hits — “The Haunting of Hill House” and its followup “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” respectively — Mike Flanagan turned another classic horror text as the basis for “Midnight Mass,” his latest limited series: the Bible.
Saying that Flanagan’s source material was “huge” would be putting it mildly, “and the craziest thing about it, is that it is so dense and so esoteric, you can find something in there to justify almost anything.”