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  • Who Goes There?

    10/29/2024 8:40:05 AM PDT · by ArtDodger · 10 replies
    sbcc.edu ^ | 1938 | John W. Campbell Jr
    For your Halloween Reading edification. One of the scariest stories of all time. Who Goes There by John W. Campbell Jr. This story was the basis for several movies called 'The Thing'. https://soma.sbcc.edu/users/davega/xnon_active_classes/filmst_118/FILMS/ThingFromAnotherPlanet/Who%20Goes%20There_Book.pdf
  • A new Kickstarter project will publish an undiscovered novel that inspired The Thing

    10/26/2018 10:49:53 AM PDT · by EveningStar · 17 replies
    The Verge ^ | October 21, 2018 | Andrew Liptak
    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 A researcher recently discovered an unpublished, novel-length manuscript of the story, and a small press is using Kickstarter to publish it...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...