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<i>The Thing</i>: Have A Shot of Whisky With Your Existential Terror

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Kurt Russell as R.J. MacReady in The Thing (1982)
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The Thing: Have A Shot of Whisky With Your Existential Terror

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Will We Get a Sequel to The Thing? John Carpenter Teases We Just Might

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Forty Years Later, What Makes John Carpenter’s The Thing So Effing Scary?

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What Makes John Carpenter’s The Thing So Effing Scary?

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Choose Wisely: Ranking 25 Memorable Deaths in SFF

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The Thing #1 cover next to headshot of Walter Mosley
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Marvel Hires Walter Mosley to Write The Thing

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Superhero Movie Rewatch

“Please don’t blow up!” — Fantastic Four (2015)

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Myke Cole and Michael Livingston Reveal Their All-Time Favorite Aliens

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Front Lines and Frontiers

The Father of Science Fiction: The Best of John W. Campbell

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H.P. Lovecraft

Resistance is Futile: Peter Watts’s “The Things”

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Fall of Fear

It Came from Within: 5 Great Body Horror Films

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Applied Kant: The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts

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N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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