For fans of Stranger Things looking for something to read, here is a look at five books that are perfect for fans.
often point to the show’s throwback nature, bringing the nostalgia of the 1980s with a mix of two 80s icons, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, as their influences. Of course, this means mixing the films of Spielberg, specifically things like, with the novels of Stephen King, using the idea of kids finding themselves in dangerous situations, while still playing in the era of hair metal, yuppies, and John Hughes movies.
The good news is that there are a lot of novels thatfans can read that take a similar stance, both with the nostalgia aspects and the idea of kids in danger.says it has the “80’s nostalgia of Stranger Things,” which was a big selling point. However, this is a straight-up horror novel about a small community in Massachusetts in 1984, when four unknown children show up on Halloween and blend in with the other kids trick-or-treating in vintage costumes, begging the other kids to hide them from The Cunning Man. Add in the families in the town falling apart as horrifying secrets are revealed, and this is a novel that delivers a terrifying 1980s-based horror story, with the kids trying to survive in a world that tries to hurt them at every turn. Author Christopher Golden is a sci-fi and fantasy writer who previously co-created the Outerverse comic book universe with, although that fell by the wayside. It is easy to see King’s influence on the organization terrorizing Hawkins from novels like Firestarter, but one of King’s more recent novels also has a very similar theme. In, a government organization finds kids with psychic powers, murders their families, and abducts the children in an attempt to weaponize them.‘s backstory, but this is more focused on where the kids are kept and their attempts to escape. It seems like this plays strongly in the aspects of the story where Eleven was held and experimented on. For anyone who wants to read a story that bears a striking resemblance to Hawkins National Laboratory,The Duffer Brothers’ First Post-Stranger Things Release Is Finally on Netflix likely used as an influence as much as it did Stephen King, go back further to a novel that King has called one of the most terrifying stories he ever read. Ray Bradbury releasedin 1962, and it tells the story of two young boys who end up fighting for their lives at a traveling carnival that arrives in their small Illinois town. The story follows two 13-year-olds named Jim Nightshade and William Halloway and their nightmare experience when a creepy carnival arrives in town, where its leader can offer up anyone’s desires, but with a deadly twist. Much like Stranger Things, this takes place in a small town where the kids realize they have to fight for their lives, or they will lose everything they hold dear in the end. The book wasGrady Hendrix has developed a nice career writing horror novels that often play as much as a dark comedy as a scary tale. When looking at his work, it is easy to see the similarities between his 2016 novel,and Stephen King novels. The story follows Abby and Gretchen, friends since fifth grade, when they bonded on everything from E.T. to roller skating. However, when they start high school, things change.about how kids change when they start high school and often drift apart from their older friends. However, it tells the story in a supernatural style, as one of the girls decides her friend is actually possessed, with a demon living inside her. In the end, this is a story about the friendship between two kids and how a friendship that close will survive to the end, as they fight to save each other by any means necessary., and it is easy to see this as the closest story to that of Stranger Things. The book takes place in two time frames, with one being a group of kids known as the Loser’s Club and the second with the kids as adults, all returning to their hometown to finish a battle they started all those years earlier.have to fight a demon from another world who can change shapes, but usually takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The parts with them as adults are not as similar to, but watching the Loser’s Club fight Pennywise as kids is easily where the Duffer Brothers came up with their ideas for their kids fighting Vecna.Season 2 of Stephen King’s Hit Horror Show Will Take a Long Time, but Has Avoided a Stranger Things ProblemApple TV Reveals Creepy First Look at Highly-Anticipated New Remake – Watch the Cape Fear Trailer5 Great Fantasy Book Trilogies Where the Second Book Is the BestHBO Max Is About To Lose a Cult Classic Comic Book Movie30 Years Ago Today, Friends Wrote Out 1 of Its Best Supporting Characters
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