Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing)

Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing)
ISBN-10
147942613X
ISBN-13
9781479426133
Category
Fiction
Pages
73
Language
English
Published
2017-04-11
Publisher
Wildside Press LLC
Author
John W. Campbell Jr.

Description

"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film "The Thing." John W. Campbell's classic tells of an antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien -- with terrifying results!

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