Winter. Hawkins. 1985. Welcome back to a town crawling with secrets, where beloved heroes are facing fresh mysteries... and an all-new breed of strange.

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

A year after Melanie goes missing, her friends set out to find answers — only to get stuck fighting mysterious killers to the death over and over again.

A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.