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I was originally going to say make the text layer, and give it a Stroke Layer Style with Fill Opacity set to zero, but that would not let me get the slight Bevel & Emboss in your example. So I had to Ctrl click the text layer to load it as a selection and use Edit > Stroke on a new layer. I could then proceed as I needed to.
Inner and Outer Glow Layer Styles are pretty touchy and subtle changes to thir settings can have a large effect, so go carefully. I used Outer Glow, and have opacity a wee bit higher than in your example. I don't particularly like the effect. Perhaps it would look better if kerning was raised to space the letters so the glow did not overlap.
I went and found the original because it is much easier to assess the effect from that.
I found the fonts (outline and solid) at www.dafontfree.io/download/stranger-things/
Therre is barely any outer glow in the original. It's more like a feint red shadow behind the whole thing. My recreate is at the top with no effects at this stage.
I grouped the layers into a single Smart Object. I think this is closer to the original title graphic.
The opriiginal has a patchy effect with some ares faded and other bright. Ti get that effect I filled a layer with Render > Clouds, and pasted into a layer mask on the Stranger Things Smart Object layer. That was too much, so I bought the mask density down to 75%. There are several ways you could do this if you want more control, but this is completely non-destructive.
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