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The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
The Things won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, [1] and was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, [2] the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, [3] and the 2011 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. [4] The audio version was a finalist for the 2010 Parsec Award for short fiction. [5]
Who Goes There? is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart.Its story follows a group of people trapped in a scientific outpost in Antarctica infested by shapeshifting monsters able to absorb and perfectly imitate any living being, including humans.
The Thing is a 2011 science fiction horror film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., written by Eric Heisserer, and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Eric Christian Olsen.
The Thing from Another World was released in April 1951. [3] By the end of that year, the film had accrued $1,950,000 in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals, making it the year's 46th biggest earner, beating all other science fiction films released that year, including The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide .
The Thing! is an American horror comic book published by Charlton Comics that ran 17 issues from 1952 to 1954. Its tagline was "Weird tales of suspense and horror!" After the 17th issue, it was cancelled and the series' numbering continued as Blue Beetle vol. 2.
Benjamin cites The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as shaping her reading life as a child. The Thing About Jellyfish was inspired in part by a trip Benjamin took to an aquarium, and influenced a novel she had been developing about a girl in middle school and her sibling.
The Thing is a fictional shapeshifting and telepathic alien and the titular antagonist of the science fiction horror franchise of the same name. It first appeared in the novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell , which has been adapted into various media, including films, literature, and video games.