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Published: 2014-03-09 18:02:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 6435; Favourites: 159; Downloads: 37
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The Thing finally goes up in flames at the end of John W Campbell jr's "Who Goes There". Essential reading if you're even the teenie-tiniest interested in scifi, fantasy or horror.Related content
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those three pupils in each eye of the thing are the coolest, i guess it's some kind of shaepshifting parasite or virus.
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It was a shapeshifter, yes; and one of the coolest in SciFi.
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Was it described like this in the original story or were you influenced by the Barlowe illustration?
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As I remember it, this it pretty much how the head was described: Three-eyed, with a orifice-like mouth and worm like "hair".
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That's the horror film that inspired The Thing from Another World and The Thing from John Carpenter, which was more faithful to the book.
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You mean horror story?Β
Yes, Carpenter sure made the most of this story and kept the original tale's suffocating feeling of claustrophibia and paranoia.
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Yep, I mean The Thing by John Carpenter was more faithful to the novella WhoΒ Goes There. Like I taking place in Antartica and the alien being a virus that turns whatever they touch into horrible monstrosities.
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the thing is one of my favorite horror films i like the idea of an alien microbe that can take over and organism wearing a flawless disguise then transforming into hideous monsters one of my favorite movie monsters along with pumpkinhead and werewolves :3
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It's the notion that anybody can be the monster, and I guess "the monster is now us" that makes the story so effective.
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"Yeah, fuck you too" is all that comes to mind.
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Yep. I always imagine the moster defiantly going up in smoke at the end of the tale.
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The Thing? I was talking through MacReady.
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Yes! Finally a fan art based on the story's description of the thing and not one of the various movie portrayals.
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Imagine this monster in the 1950's film!
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I have always wanted to read the original story of this. Sadly though I just keep putting that off. I am a huge fan of the movies though 
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It's not a long read, and well worth the effort.
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Thank you! A pity it hasn't been artistically depicted that often.
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Good job too, it looks very unearthly and sinister, HPL would approve.
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Please do. It still packs a punch, and if you've seen John Carpenter's "The Thing" you'll recognize a lot of stuff.
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Good to know, i plan on it being the next book i read.
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