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Books for "Stranger Things" fans
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items A list of books for fans of Stranger Things…to fill the void after the season finale.
Sections
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Class "Kids on Bikes" Gang
Teenagers with Special Abilities & Powers
80s/90s Nostalgia
Uncovering Sinister Conspiracies & Secrets
Class "Kids on Bikes" Gang
In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead-singer of a high school punk band- who's been missing for weeks.
Home Sick Pilots by Dan Watters
In 1980s Niagara Falls, twelve-year-old Jake and his friends spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories with his eccentric uncle, uncovering truths about memory, storytelling, and the experiences that shape who we become.
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
On Halloween night 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls stumble upon a world-changing discovery that blends suburban coming-of-age drama with otherworldly mysteries.
Paper Girls: The Complete Story by Brian K Vaughn
On a cold 1987 winter night in Milwaukee, six middle-school paperboys encounter werewolves, witches, and memory-eating monsters while selling newspaper subscriptions in the haunted neighborhood of Hampton Heights, confronting both supernatural terror...
Hampton Heights by Dan Kois
Four friends unearth a unique VHS tape that, when viewed, causes short-distance teleportation with euphoric after-effects, inadvertently launching a perilous trend.
Teleportasm by Joshua Milligan
Teenagers with Special Abilities & Powers
In this speculative thriller, teenage girls suddenly develop the physical power to cause pain and death.
The Power by Naomi Alderman
In Victorian-era London, a detective escorts two children with extraordinary healing and light-manipulating abilities to a mysterious Scottish estate where other gifted youngsters are gathered, uncovering dark secrets about their powers and confronti...
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
Two brilliant college roommates discover how to create superpowers through near-death experiences, but their experiment goes disastrously wrong, leading to a decade-long vendetta where both now hunt each other with extraordinary abilities and opposin...
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
In 1980s Mexico City, fifteen-year-old Meche discovers she can cast spells through music, but decades later she returns for her father's funeral to confront the memories and magic she left behind.
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno Garcia
80s/90s Nostalgia
This Swedish vampire novel set in the 1980s, follows the relationship between Oskar, a 12-year-old boy, and Eli, a centuries-old vampire child, in a working-class Stockholm suburb.
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
When lifelong best friends Abby and Gretchen enter high school in the 1980s, Gretchen's increasingly strange behavior leads Abby to a terrifying conclusion: her best friend is possessed by a demon, and Abby must find a way to save her.
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
On Halloween night 1984 in suburban Massachusetts, mysterious children in vintage costumes appear on Parmenter Road begging for protection from "The Cunning Man," as neighborhood families unravel and a supernatural threat emerges from a strange clear...
All Hallows by Christopher Golden
In 1997 North Dakota, nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate must stop alien worms from a crashed comet that are infecting animals and erasing people's memories, facing off against a doomsday cult and infected prairie dogs to save their s...
Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
After finding a mysterious VHS tape in their late grandmother's house, two cousins accidentally summon the "melon heads"—local urban legend monsters—into reality and must battle their way to Lake Michigan to destroy the bloodthirsty creatures before ...
Melon Head Mayhem by Alex Ebenstein
Uncovering Sinister Conspiracies & Secrets
In 1963, a former nuclear specialist is transferred from a Siberian gulag to a mysterious Soviet town called City 40, where he's tasked with studying radiation effects on animals but begins uncovering dangerous secrets about the area's contamination.
The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley
A sinister carnival arrives in Green Town, Illinois a week before Halloween, and two boys uncover its dark secrets while discovering the dangerous cost of wishes granted by its mysterious, nightmare-inducing attractions.
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
A group of friends tied together by a game and the deadly weekend that tears them apart.
Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror.
The Hollow Places by T Kingfisher
Thirteen years after their final case as teen detectives in 1977, four estranged friends must reunite to confront the real monsters behind the nightmares that have haunted them since their childhood in a small Oregon mining town.
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
A teen working as the "final girl" at a horror-themed summer camp finds her role becoming terrifyingly real when her co-workers start disappearing and dying, forcing her to uncover the dark truth behind Camp Mirror Lake to survive.
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
In 1998, seventeen-year-old Jess Flynn's life begins to unravel when she discovers an iPhone—nine years before it should exist—and realizes her entire world is a fabricated reality designed for someone else's entertainment.
This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey
A grieving mother travels to a bizarre island where residents are obsessed with reliving 1994, searching for answers about her son's death, but when she vanishes, her brother must uncover the island's sinister secrets to find her and escape alive.
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
Thirty years after a mysterious children's show ended in tragedy, the five surviving cast members reunite at the remote desert filming location to uncover the truth about their enigmatic host and what really happened.
Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Vera, the non-gifted daughter of demonologists desperate to escape her family's reputation, teams up with Maxwell, who suspects his grieving mother is possessed by something sinister, to confront dark forces involving cults and supernatural evil in t...
Small Town Monsters by Diana Rodriguez Wallach