Posted on 10/26/2018 10:49:53 AM PDT by EveningStar
John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic science fiction horror film that has scared audiences for decades. But the film was inspired by an earlier story published in the 1930s, “Who Goes There?” by noted editor John W. Campbell Jr., and it turns out that that there’s more to that story. A researcher recently discovered an unpublished, novel-length manuscript of the story, and a small press is using Kickstarter to publish it...
Alec Nevala-Lee notes that Campbell was inspired in part by explorer Richard Byrd, and possibly H.P. Lovecraft’s classic horror story “At the Mountains of Madness.” In 1938, a novella-length story called “Who Goes There?” appeared in Astounding, which went on to become a favorite within the science fiction fan community. The story was later adapted in 1951 as The Thing from Another World, while John Carpenter’s remake The Thing arrived three decades later. A prequel to Carpenter’s film, also titled The Thing, came out in 2011...
Nevala-Lee discovered that “Who Goes There?” wasn’t the first version of the story: Campbell had written a novel-length story, which he then shortened for publication in Astounding. Nevala-Lee went through all of Campbell’s surviving letters while researching his book, and came across a reference to a box of manuscripts that he had sent to Harvard. “I hadn’t heard about this anywhere else,” Nevala-Lee told The Verge, “and it doesn’t pop up on a casual search online, but I finally tracked down an entry in the catalog at [Harvard’s] Houghton Library.” Inside, he found the original, complete manuscript of Frozen Hell...
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One of the scariest movies ever.
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I will definitely check that out. Love the movie.
Remember seeing “The Thing from Another World” (1951) as a kid. Then saw the 1993 version. Excellent flick.
One of the scariest movies ever.
James Arness (Matt Dillon) was the Thing in the 1951 movie.
Yep...he sure was.
I saw it three times in the movie theater when it came out.
They just don’t seem as scary in that picture.
Maybe we should heat their blood.
One of the production staff is in my circle here in L.A. I wont tell you who because he’s a closet Republican and I also spoke with John Carpenter twice about the ending.
He was on set all the time. Not even the crew know who really is the alien except Kurt Russell and Carpenter (because they’re pals)
The original Thing was great. In the second one the black guy at the end is the thing.
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