by John W. Campbell Jr., William F. Nolan
Beautifully imaginative story about Antarctic scientists discovering a strange creature trapped in the ice and the terror and paranoia that unfold as the monster kills and replaces them with perfect mimics. While I've seen the John Carpenter movie version many times, I know better than to believe a ...
What a mess of a book. Story lurches from one scene to the next and characters and scenes change in the space of a sentence. Things happen with no explanation prior or afterwards.Basic story consists of a bunch of cookie cutter Characters standing round asking each other if they're a monster or accu...
Originally published by John W. Campbell as a novella in the August 1938 edition of the magazine Astounding Science-Fiction under the pen name Don A. Stuart, “Who Goes There?” spawned the body horror fiction subgenre and three versions of the movie The Thing. The plot is familiar to millions of fans...
This novella has run the gamut in just three films. The first one used the setting, but none of the characters, and externalized the monster; the second mirrored the text in almost every way; and the third one played off the second more than the novella itself. From "loosely based" to textbook adapt...
John Carpenter's The Thing is one of my favorite movies, so I'd love to read this story that the movie is based on.
Log in with Facebook 
