Have you binge-watched season two of “Stranger Things” on Netflix yet? The TV show, created by the Duffer brothers, is set in Indiana in the 1980s and focuses on the disappearance of a young boy amid supernatural events. If you love this sci-fi horror series, you’re sure to enjoy some of these similarly themed books.

The strangest, eeriest book I have read in recent years is “Night Film” by Marisha Pessl, where a journalist becomes obsessed with the mysterious death of the daughter of an iconic horror filmmaker. Also high on my scary list are “In a Dark, Dark Wood” by Ruth Ware, about a British bachelorette party gone wrong, and “Final Girls” by Riley Sager, which focuses on a mass murder survivor.

Fantasy fans should check out Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods” (now a TV series starring Ian McShane from Deadwood), about an epic battle between the old gods (knowledge, wisdom) and the new gods (computers, television). “The Graveyard Book,” where a boy is adopted and raised by the supernatural occupants of a graveyard after his family is brutally murdered, is another great Gaiman book geared towards younger audiences.

“Stranger Things” includes numerous references to Stephen King, the (appropriately named) king of horror. The recent movie “It” had a very similar feel to “Stranger Things” so you might want to start with that book. Another one to try is “Different Seasons,” which features four novellas including “The Body,” the short story that the film “Stand By Me” was based on, about four boys traveling to look at a dead body.

“Summer of Night” by Dan Simmons sounds very similar to “Stranger Things,” but set in a different decade. It centers on a group of five adolescent boys during the summer of 1960 as strange events and an invisible evil spread terror through their Illinois town.

If Eleven is your favorite Stranger Things character, “The Girl with All the Gifts” by M.R. Carey (also a 2016 British film) might appeal to you. Melanie, test subject number one, is the girl with all the gifts in this sci-fi novel set in a dystopian future where most of humanity has been wiped out by an infection.

Dean Koontz has several interesting novels with similarities to Eleven’s backstory, including “Watcher,” where laboratory scientists use genetic engineering techniques to create a dog with the intelligence of a human and the heart and loyalty of a labrador retriever. Of course, there is a much more evil motive behind the experiments. In “The Door to December,” a psychiatrist discovers that her daughter who was kidnapped six years ago had actually been locked away and used a series of experiments that combined science and the occult.

I’m only two episodes into season two of “Stranger Things” right now, but I hope to be watching the season finale while enjoying Eggos this weekend. No spoilers until then!

Jen Pace Dickenson is the Youth Services Librarian for Polk County Public Libraries. For information about the library’s resources, programs, and other services, visit www.polklibrary.org or call 828-894-8721.