By: Jonathan F. Bassett Lander University AbstractThis paper explores the Netflix television series Stranger Things from an existential perspective positing the appeal of horror as derived from its ability to elicit fears of mortality, corporeality, and impermanence, while simultaneously presenting narrative and visual messages that buttress psychological defenses ameliorating those fears. Special attention is givenContinue reading “Death, Nostalgia, and Relationships: Psychological Defenses against Existential Terror and the Appeal of Stranger Things”