Fans of Stranger Things they often point to abandoning the nature of the show, which brings nostalgia of the 1980s with the combination of two icons of the 80s, Steven Spielberg and Stephen King, as their inspiration. Of course, this means combining Spielberg’s films, especially things like ET The Extra-Terrestrialwith Stephen King’s books, they use the concept of children who find themselves in dangerous situations, while playing in the era of hair iron, yuppies and John Hughes films. The good news is that there are many such books Stranger Things fans can read that they take a similar position, with elements of nostalgia and the idea of children in danger.
Here’s a look at five great books to read if you like them Stranger Things.
5) All Hallows by Christopher Golden
When describing the book on its back cover, by Christopher Golden All Saints it says it has an “80s feel to Stranger Things,” which was a big selling point. However, this is a horror story about a small community in Massachusetts in 1984, when four unknown children appear on Halloween and meet other children dressed in old costumes, asking the other children to hide them from The Cunning Man.
Add in inner-city families being torn apart as horrific secrets are revealed, and this is a book that delivers a horror story set in the 1980s, about children trying to survive in a world that tries to hurt them every time. Author Christopher Golden is a sci-fi and fantasy writer who previously created the Outerverse comic book universe in Hellboy producer Mike Mignola.
4) The Stephen King Institute
Stephen King was a big influence on Stranger Thingsand the Duffer Brothers even wanted to adapt King’s book The Talisman, although it fell by the wayside. It’s easy to see King’s influence on the organization that scares Hawkins from books like Firestarter, but one of King’s latest stories has a very similar theme. To Centera government organization finds children with magical powers, kills their families, and kidnaps the children in an attempt to use them as weapons.
It sounds very similar to A fire extinguisher‘s backstory, but this focuses more on where the children are kept and their attempts to escape. This seems to play strongly in the parts of the story where Eleven is captured and tried. For anyone who wants to read a similar story on Hawkins National Laboratory, Center it is the best.
3) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
For anyone who wants to read a good fantasy book Stranger Things perhaps used as an inspiration as Stephen King, go back to a book that King called one of the scariest stories he’s ever read. Ray Bradbury was released Something Bad This Way Comes in 1962, and tells the story of two boys who end up fighting for their lives at a carnival that comes to their small Illinois town.
The story follows two 13-year-olds named Jim Nightshade and William Halloway and their terrifying experience when a terrifying carnival comes to town, where its leader can grant anyone’s wishes, but with a deadly twist. Much like Stranger Things, this takes place in a small town where kids realize they have to fight for their lives, or they will lose everything they hold dear in the end. This book had a clear influence on the work of Stephen King, with its details EXPLANATION and Essentialsand is the perfect viewer for fans of Stranger Things.
2) The Expulsion of My Best Friend by Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix has created a fantastic book of horror stories that often play as dark comedy as horror. Looking at his work, it’s easy to see the similarities between his 2016 book, Dismissing My Best Friend’s Debtsand both Stranger Things and books by Stephen King. The story follows Abby and Gretchen, friends since fifth grade, as they collaborate on everything from ET to roller skating. However, when they start high school, things change.
Dismissing My Best Friend’s Debts is a story about how kids change when they start high school and often drift away from their old friends. However, it tells the story in a supernatural way, as one of the girls decides that her friend actually has a demon living inside him. Ultimately, this is a story about the friendship between two children and how a close friendship will survive until the end, as they fight to save each other by any means necessary.
1) IT by Stephen King
Stephen King’s EXPLANATION is still one of the author’s favorite books, and it’s easy to see this as a story close to Stranger Things. This book takes place in two seasons, one is a group of children known as the Loser’s Club and the second is the children as adults, all returning to their hometown to finish the war they started all those years ago.
Instead of a demon from another dimension and his army of monsters, the children enter EXPLANATION they must fight a demon from another world who can change shapes, but usually takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The roles they have as adults are not the same Stranger Thingsbut watching the Loser Squad fight Pennywise when the kids are soft where the Duffer Brothers came up with their ideas for their kids fighting Vecna.
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