The second Lovecraft adaptation in the Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology due to come out on Netflix later this month, has its roots in the world of genuine science. In late
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Del Toro’s Model
Spooky season is upon us, and with it a slew of new ghosts and goblins on the big and small screens. Among them is Guillermo Del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, a horror anthology set to
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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing IV – The Thing
Nothing reveals an artist’s talent quite like telling a story which has been told before. Lovecraft began a theme of alien Antarctic horror, and Campbell spun those elements into a new narrative. The Thing from
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The Pulpy Prehistory of the The Thing III – The Thing from Another World
Where John Carpenter fans might find Who Goes There? familiar, like coming home after a long absence, its 1951 adaptation is more like viewing the story through a funhouse mirror: anything recognizable is distorted, and
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The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing II – Who Goes There?
In his long journey home, Odysseus was forced to pass between the fearsome monster, Scylla, and the vast, ship-swallowing whirlpool, Charybdis. A similar danger confronts anyone tasked with describing the origins of John W. Campbell’s
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The Pulpy Prehistory of The Thing I – At the Mountains of Madness
While magazines made of literal pulp are long gone, the spirit of the pulps is like a good movie monster–it just refuses to die. H. P. Lovecraft in particular has had a long undeath, spawning
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The Circle of the Bear – Part Four: Enter the Circle
This is the final part in a four part series. Here are parts one, two, and three. The coals from the first fire had never died. Ned Bowles kindled a new flame from them while
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The Circle of the Bear – Part Three: The Hunt
This is part three of a four part series. Click here and here for parts one and two. After all the drums, the skins, the grease from the effigy pot, and the rank incense, I
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The Circle of the Bear – Part Two: The Cave
This is part two of a four part series. Click here for the beginning of the adventure Ned Bowles made me strip. I was buck naked in front of him and five other guys, while
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The Circle of the Bear – Part One: The Mound
The field I was standing in was scrubby and overgrown, at the top of a broad, low mound. It was at the corner of a pine plantation, and I had convinced the owner to let
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