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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the saturday night ghost club by craig davidson
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 !
the cover of welcome to night vale, with an image of a radio tower in the background
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
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?
stranger things dungeons and dragons by jody houser
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.
stranger things science camp by jody houser
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
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!
a young boy riding a bike on top of a rainbow colored cover with the words sting - ray afternoons
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
Availability: Illusive / Emily Lloyd-Jones.
Sounds similar to those Chicago-based episode of Stranger Things 2.
the cover of stephen king's book, it is in black and red letters
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
Availability: The hellbound heart / Clive Barker.
Barker's sophisticated blend of horror and fantasy should appeal to Stranger Things fans
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the poster for wedding kids, featuring two children and an adult in front of a full moon
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
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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
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
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
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.
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