Stephen King thinks 'Stranger Things 2' is 'balls to the wall entertainment'

If you impress him, you've done something right.
 By 
Keith Wagstaff
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Stephen King is the most iconic name in horror.

Do I even need to list his novels? The Shining, It, Misery, Cujo, and on and on into infinity.

So if you impress him, you've done something right. And boy, did Stranger Things 2 impress Stephen King.

Looks like someone just binged the hell out of Eleven and the Hawkins crew on Netflix. And he wasn't scared of the Stranger Things haters, either.

We should all be so lucky as to have Stephen King call our creation "no bullshit, balls to the wall entertainment." He probably can't wait until Season 3 either.

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Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.

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