Best Long Stranger Things Fanfics
Stranger Things fanfics in the 50k–100k range — full novel length without the multi-week commitment. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 Long Stranger Things Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Stranger Things fics — 50,000–100,000 words.
sub-culture
by palmviolet
“Is he whining about Eddie being mean to him again?” Robin is leaning in the doorway, eating a leftover slice that’s probably cold by now. “You talk about him more than you talk about girls, Steve, it’s getting concerning. Anyone would think you had a crush.”or, steve is pretty convinced eddie now h
A Sign of The Morning
by ToEdenandBackAgain
Vecna is dead. The Upside Down is cut off from Hawkins yet again. Steve is trying to go back to normal, whatever that is. He's also trying to figure out exactly how Eddie Munson has managed to fit so easily into his life.
Don't Tell Me There's No Hope At All/ Together We Stand, Divided We Fall
by Straight_Outta_Hobbiton
Billy's used to being afraid of his father, and he knows he's not the only one scared. But it's one thing to know your stepmother gets smacked around every once in a while and another thing completely to find her body on the bathroom floor.He's a mess, Max is even more of a mess, and Joyce Byers is
the lathe
by palmviolet
"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
Here I Go Again
by HeckinaHandbasket
It was a new lifeguard.And he wasn’t a Beta, either.No, he was. All. Alpha.Now that Steve looked around, he noticed that the prime deck chairs all held posing, preening, perfectly coiffed Omegas, mostly mated but still blatantly ogling the new lifeguard.There was a lot of him to ogle.
dried up, half full
by lymricks
Steve’s been coming out here searching for a monster in the woods. He’s finally found one.“What do you want, Hargrove?”
it's a risk, it's a gamble
by nondz (pinkjook)
“I think we should pretend to date,” Robin says.“What?” Steve sputters.
city lights lay out before us
by silvergalaxy
“I said, c’mere, Harrington,” Billy repeats, eyeing Steve like it’s a challenge.Steve doesn’t lose challenges.-Steve has been wandering through the woods at night for months, earning him the not-so-coveted title of Hawkins' resident nutcase. By the time Billy Hargrove rolls into town with his stupid
Who's Gonna Drive You Home?
by LaVeraceVia
“Steve,” she says again, with more urgency, and now he’s sure it’s Max. “I need your help.” Steve’s pulse goes into overdrive. “Max, what’s wrong? I can get Hopper- ”“No!” she cuts him off, talking fast. “No cops. There’s no time and, and…it’s so cold out there and—and there’s just no time okay? You
How to Rehabilitate a Jock in Four Months
by towardthesun
After their breakup, Steve found that being around Nancy and Jonathan was pretty much unbearable. His old friends wouldn't even look at him, and there was only so much time he could spend with the kids before he started feeling kind of pathetic. All in all, he was a pretty lonely person now.But was
The Party Watches The Black Phone
by Squirrel_Tail22
At the Byers house for Movie night, Robin pulls out a movie that she found in the back of Family Video covered in dust. Not knowing the can of worms that would open, the group agrees. Once the movie plays, they realized they're not watching a movie but a dark past someone wanted to keep hidden for a
The times Mike Wheeler and Will Byers tried hiding their relationship, and the one time they couldn't.
by TheYilingPatriarch1
There was something on both their minds, as it turned out. So when Will brought up the topic of the party and their family, Mike agreed completely with his fear. They’re going to keep their relationship a secret so they can work things out themselves, and because they can’t afford for their relation
Dropped Halfway Down to Hell
by ashadeofgreen
Will raised an eyebrow at his friend's antics, then dropped his eyes to where he knew Dustin had reached a hand out towards him. “This summer, we stick together. You and me, Byers.” Will grinned, taking Dustin’s hand and shaking it. “You and me, Henderson.” A rewrite of S3:The night Dustin gets
you're the closest to heaven (that i’ll ever be)
by wisehearts
When the sermon begins, it doesn’t take long for Will to feel a breath on his ear. “This is gonna be boring isn’t it?” Will scrunches his face and lolls his head to look at Mike. “Why do you act like you’ve never been to church before?” “I haven’t.” Mike whispers.Somewhere around the border of North
You lose your way, just take my hand
by sandnay
Eight years have passed since El disappeared, but Mike never recovered. Living as a writer, he is still stuck in the past, isolating himself and seeking comfort in alcohol. Far from Hawkins, El carries secrets, guilt, and the hope that there’s still a place for her. Or Mike never forgot Eleven, and
Devil's in the Discipline
by jennylikesicedcoffee
Chrissy Cunningham knows lying is a sin. She was raised Christian, after all. But lying's what got her a hot boyfriend, a star position on the cheer squad, and some (maybe sort of) friends to boot. It's not until Eddie Munson nearly runs her over with his truck that her lies begin to catch up with h
Kill or Be Killed
by Pitkin
Two days after surviving the so-called 'earthquake', Hawkins is a war zone. The gates are open. The Upside Down is spreading. The Party is scattered. The monsters are coming.Nancy Wheeler has a gun, a plan, and a growing terror that she cannot keep everyone alive.Robin Buckley has a mind for pattern
Show Me The Way Back Home
by BreadAndButter789
There. That tangle of thick vines… she recognised it. That was right by where Steve had been attacked earlier. She moved quickly over to it, spotting the three dead bats clumped together, black blood spreading from their bodies. If that was where Steve had been attacked, that meant that the gate was
At The Beach
by NattyFight
Eddie cannot tell you why, except that sometimes his body makes a choice before his brain has caught up. He is at the third teller window before he has even examined the move, and then he looks up and sees her. He gets a handful of seconds where she does not know she is being watched. Something in h
The tale of two siblings
by DeemieWrites
After surviving his fight with The Mind Flayer, Billy Hargrove struggles to move on from everything that has happened to him. He strives to help his adopted family get out of poverty, develop a more positive relationship with his little sister, Max, and become a better person. However, moving on fr
suncatcher in your heart
by sealysium
He doesn’t feel sorry; he just wants to be loved.Love? What is love to him, a male omega, anyway?Pure instinct. But deep down, Will understands Mike and his fears—Mike doesn’t want to lose their friendship… or what’s left of it. Will saw that clearly in Mike’s eyes. He’s resistant. He’s the living r
West of Caelwyn
by briarwyvern
A medieval fantasy reimagining of Stranger Things. In the kingdom of Caelwyn, magic is feared, dragons are long dead, and knights are taught never to question the crown. Michael Wheeler has spent his entire life preparing to become one of them. When he is sent into the cursed forests of Briarwood to
The Pursuit of Happiness
by eyeneversleep
Something comes over Eddie. He’s not lonely, not exactly. It’s a feeling adjacent to it. Another regretful consequence of being wanted for murder: absolutely no dating life whatsoever. Not that Eddie had one before, and not that he’s had time to really dwell on it the past few months, with trying to
To eat, to love, to hate, to use.
by Glug_Glug69
Will looked in the mirror, discontented with what he saw. He had been working out for an hour and a half each day, eating in calorie deficit, not snacking, doing everything he could to reach his goals but he still saw something in the mirror that disgusted him. Maybe it was the effort, he looked so
Something Wicked
by cosmicstxrdust
Double, double, toil and troubleFire burn and cauldron bubbleDouble, double, toil and troubleSomething wicked this way comes In which Jessie Salvador grows up in the judgmental town of Hawkins, ostracized after being labeled unstable and marked by rumor. Drawn to the edges of trouble, she becomes
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This list of 25long Stranger Things fanfics spans 1,768,192 total words. Kudos range from 25 on the newest entries to 29,278 on the most established. 56% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (9 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Hurt/Comfort · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Hurt Steve Harrington · Post-Canon · Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD.
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