Introduction, Andrew J. Byers, Adam Powell
Part I: Spirits, Monsters, and Supernatural Science
Chapter 1: Comfort, Control, and Christmas Lights: The Types and Techniques of Spirit Communication in Stranger Things, Season One, Adam Powell
Chapter 2: The Myth of Stranger Things: A Structural Analysis of Monsters and Fears in Season One, Vivian Asimos
Chapter 3: Defining the Normal: Monstrosity in Stranger Things, Brandon Grafius
Chapter 4: Enchanted Science? The Supernatural Imagination of Stranger Things, Josh Reeves
Part II: History, (Pop) Culture, and Nostalgic Contexts
Chapter 5: Who Is Suzie Bingham? Gender and the 1980s Mormon Family in Stranger Things, Jana Reiss
Chapter 6: “Do Not Be Overcome by Evil”: Dungeons, Dragons, and the Satanic Panic in Stranger Things , Joseph P. Laycock
Chapter 7: Fighting Satan with the Devil’s Music? Subverting Suspicions of Demonic Influence on Rock ‘n’ Roll in Stranger Things Season 4, John Anthony Dunne
Chapter 8: Home, Nostalgia, and Stranger Things, Andrew Root
Chapter 9: Utopia, Intertextuality, and Liturgy: Nostalgia and Religion in Stranger Things, Melissa Conroy
Part III: Theology, Ethics and Biblical Themes
Chapter 10: “Peeking Behind Bauman’s Curtain”: A Theology and Ethics of Institutions in Stranger Things, Nathaniel A. Warne Adishian
Chapter 11: Max and the Magdalene: On Violence, Grief, and Trauma Under Patriarchy, Siobhán Jolley
Chapter 12: From Patmos to Hawkins: Slipping through Time and Space in Revelation and Stranger Things, Heather Macumber
Chapter 13: Can Anything Good Come out of Hawkins? Self, Place, Evil, and Salvation in John’s Gospel, Stranger Things, and the Secular Age, Andrew J. Byers
Afterword: What Would Suzy, Erica, and Steve Say? Concluding Reflections, Andrew J. Byers, Adam Powell