Some Direct Inspiration
The creators of Stranger Things, Matt and Russ Duffer, used “The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time” as the basis for their show. They originally wanted to set the story to be set near Long Island, but they were threatened by a plagiarization lawsuit before they could even get the idea out of the boardroom. Instead, they decided to switch the location to Indiana...
Things Are Getting Stranger...
The character of Eleven was completely built around the experiences that Ed and Duncan claimed to have gone through. The Duffer brothers tried to visualize and personify what a person would actually look and act like if they were removed from society since birth. Preston Nichols talked about individuals that were in similar situations to the one that Stranger Things put Eleven in. But, in his book, these individuals suffered even more than Eleven did in the show…