Hawkins, Indiana ? where nothing is as it seems! On the surface, Hawkins seems like the kind of town where nothing bad could ever happen, but in the fall of ''83 it is anything but safe. When two friends head out into the woods with their rifles and a six-pack, the would-be hunters find themselves the prey of a nightmarish beast who has claimed the wilderness around town and everything inside it, including them. • Jody Houser returns to pen an anthology of spooky events woven into the larger tapestry of Netflix''s hit show Stranger Things.