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Stranger Things

The Netflix original series Stranger Things is smash hit with anyone who grew up in the eighties. The books on this list may offer something to fans of the series who like stories of children facing of against the supernatural. These books feature monsters, telepathy, and government secrets. A few even even feature a retro setting.
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Hawkins Indiana
Legendary Monsters
Valiant Comics
Horse Books
Dungeons Dragons
Dark Horse Comics
Random House
Dark Horse
Book Print
Availability: Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons / script, Jody Houser and Jim Zub ; line art, Diego Galindo ; colors, MsassyK ; lettering, Nate Piekos of Blambot ; front cover art by Kyle Lambert ; chapter break cover art by E.M. Gist.
Mike, Lucas, and Will bond with Dustin for the first time over the game that would define their childhood: Dungeons and Dragons.
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Albert Einstein
Stranger Things Book
Darkhorse Comics
Emerson College
Science Camp
Mike Mignola
Camp Counselor
Availability: Stranger things. Science camp / script, Jody Houser ; pencils, Edgar Salazar ; inks, Keith Champagne ; colors, Marissa Louise ; lettering, Nate Piekos of Blambot ; front cover art, Kyle Lambert ; Chapter break art by Viktor Kalvachev.
During his summer at Camp Know Where, Dustin faces nerdy bullies and a mysterious figure with sinister. When camp counselors start to disappear, Dustin has to work with Suzie and the other campers before tensions reach a boiling point.
a movie poster for the film's title
Zombies
Maximum Ride
Duffer Brothers
Web Comic
Robbie Williams
Will Byers
Availability: Stranger things. Volume one, The other side / script, Jody Houser ; pencils, Stefano Martino ; inks, Keith Champagne ; colors, Lauren Affe ; lettering, Nate Piekos of Blambot ; front cover art by Aleksi Briclot.
When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him!
the saturday night ghost club by craig davidson
Coming Of Age
Ghost Stories
Horror Novel
Boys Life
Horror Books
Penguin Random House
Literary Fiction
A Novel
Saturday Night
Availability: The Saturday night ghost club / Craig Davidson.
The Saturday Night Ghost Club is on the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize shortlist and will delight fans of spooky retro coming of age stories !
a young boy riding a bike on top of a rainbow colored cover with the words sting - ray afternoons
Padua
Memoir Books
Best Biographies
1970s Childhood
Steve Miller Band
American Sports
American Travel
The 1970s
Stingray
Availability: Sting-ray afternoons : a memoir / Steve Rushin.
"Smart as heck, laugh-out-loud funny, and warm, Steve Rushin's memoir does for 1970s childhoods what Jean Shepherd did for 1940s Christmas." - Julie Klam
an advertisement for the movie illslive, with a man standing on a city street
Book Lists
Oceans Eleven
Ya Series
Lloyd Jones
Ya Novels
Up Book
Ya Books
Books Young Adult
Books For Teens
Availability: Illusive / Emily Lloyd-Jones.
Sounds similar to those Chicago-based episode of Stranger Things 2.
the cover of welcome to night vale, with an image of a radio tower in the background
Science Fiction Books
Night Vale
Home For Peculiar Children
Douglas Adams
Welcome To Night Vale
American Gothic
Twin Peaks
E Reader
Availability: Welcome to Night Vale : a novel / Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.
Jackie has been a nineteen-year-old pawn shop centuries. Her comfortable routine is disrupted when she meets a man in a tan jacket whose face and name are unrememberable. Diane feels her son Josh drifting away from her as he tries on new forms (floor lamp, house fly, etc) and asks about his absent father. Two words will solve both their problems: KING CITY. If only they could get there.
the cover to stephen king's book fire starter, which features an image of a burning
Vintage Book Covers
The Dead Zone
Penguin Publishing
King Book
Fire Starters
Book Title
Rare Books
Stephen King
Pdf Books
Availability: Firestarter / Stephen King.
Two college students volunteer for a secret government experiment. Their offspring is a clever little girl who can push things around with her mind, then set them on fire.... sound familiar?
the cover of stephen king's book, it is in black and red letters
Crazy Movie
Best Selling Novels
Steven King
Beverly Marsh
The Stranger Movie
Pennywise The Dancing Clown
Recent Movies
World Of Books
Availability: It / Stephen King.
Stranger Things draws a lot of inspiration from early Stephen King novels. Even the typeface looks familiar. Fans are now speculating that Stranger Things takes place in the same universe as King's It.
the hellbound heart by clive barker
Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker
Horror Fiction
Best Horrors
Classic Films
Book Authors
Availability: The hellbound heart / Clive Barker.
Barker's sophisticated blend of horror and fantasy should appeal to Stranger Things fans
the poster for wedding kids, featuring two children and an adult in front of a full moon
Warrior Angel
Lake Monsters
Kids Novels
Neverending Story
Hardy Boys
Bookish Things
Anne With An E
Description: Meddling kids : a novel / by Edgar Cantero.
A team of juvenile sleuths from the 1970s reconnect in 1990 to solve some enduring mysteries.
a green poster with an image of a creature in the water and moon behind it
The Dunwich Horror
Horror Literature
Penguin Books Covers
Horror Series
The Shape Of Water
H P Lovecraft
Penguin Art
Cthulhu Mythos
Penguin Classics
System Unavailable
The monster in Stranger Things 2 is inspired by Lovecraft.
rise of the mudmen by james fw thorson book cover with man walking down street
Mystery Books
Fiction Writing
Missing Parents
Non Fiction Writing
Retro Horror
In Flames
Cape Breton
Bad Things
Guided Writing
Availability: Rise of the Mudmen / James FW Thompson.
Set in Cape Breton in 1986, Local author James FW Thompson's the Mudmen is the perfect retro horror fix for Stranger Things fans!
the waking dark by robin wasserman
The Residents
Teen Fiction
Writing Styles
Horror Stories
Availability: The waking dark / Robin Wasserman.
"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the 5 witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it
the dream - quest of vellitti boe
Books Dystopian
Sci Fi Book Covers
Hunters Wife
Gothic Novels
Book Vibes
Books Classic
Books Romance
Fantasy Book Covers
Diverse Books
Description: The dream-quest of Vellitt Boe / Kij Johnson.
Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares.