13 Books to Read If You Love Stranger Things

In his 1987 novel, The Tommyknockers, Stephen King tells the story of a small Maine town that begins to change after a mysterious object is found in the woods. The object is discovered to be part of an alien spaceship that releases a gas once exposed. Gradually, the gas transforms the townspeople into the aliens that previously inhabited the ship. While the transformation gives people new genius abilities, it also traps them in the town and provokes violence. In the midst of the chaos, a young boy disappears and his older brother does everything in his power to save him . . . including venturing to space.