History Literature / WhoGoesThere

* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: [[spoiler: Blair.]]
* MauveShirt: Bennings.
* MonsterInTheIce: And why it's a bad idea to thaw one out.
* MysteriousAntarctica: The setting.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting - and how.

* AlienHair: The creature has "[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue hair]] [[WildHair like crawling worms]]".

* BadassBeard: [=McReady=], Van Wall the pilot.

Author Alec Nevalla-Lee rediscovered the original manuscript for ''Frozen Hell'', and it's was published following a successful Kickstarter campaign.

* KilledOffScreen: The last time we see Clark, McNeily’s talking about how he’s the only one they know has to be human on account of him murdering Kinner. The only mention after that is them naming him in a list of people who turned out to be Things - presumably he was caught out by the blood test.

* TooDumbToLive: Invoked. McNeily points out that if Connant-Thing hadn’t woken everyone up after being assimilated, the original Thing would have finished assimilating the dogs and nobody would have been any the wiser. Copper suggests that the Things simply don’t have any priorities beyond being perfect imitations, and since Connant would have raised the alarm that’s what Connant-Thing does too.

* AnAxeToGrind: When they discover the alien, an axe has been embedded in its body from some past encounter with humanity prior to freezing.

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* PlantAliens: WordOfGod is the alien is closely related to carrots.

* WindowsOfTheSoul: When one character looks the alien's original form in the eye, he decides that its favorite passtime was "torturing the local equivalent of kittens."

* AnAxeToGrind

* PanUpToTheSkyEnding: Combines with TheEndOrIsIt, as [[spoiler: The Blair-Thing is killed, but there is a possibility another Thing might have been in the body of an early albatross that the heroes saw flying north.]] However, the characters discuss this possibility and decide that it is very unlikely.

* WindowsToTheSoul: When one character looks the alien's original form in the eye, he decides that its favorite passtime was "torturing the local equivalent of kittens."

''Who Goes There?'' is a {{science fiction}} novella written by Creator/JohnWCampbell. Originally a full-length novel titled ''Literature/FrozenHell'', it was shortened and renamed and published under the pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938 in the magazine ''Magazine/AstoundingStories''. It directly inspired the 1951 movie ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' and the 1982 Creator/JohnCarpenter movie ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'' (and more loosely inspired 1972's ''Film/HorrorExpress''), and indirectly influenced the next few decades of science fiction by inspiring other authors to rip it off. ''Series/TheXFiles'', for instance, adapted it ''twice'', and ''Series/TheTerror'' is something of a Victorian-era homage.

Author Alec Nevalla-Lee recently rediscovered the original manuscript for ''Frozen Hell'', and it's was published following a successful Kickstarter campaign.

Author Alec Nevalla-Lee recently rediscovered the original manuscript for ''Frozen Hell'', and it's being published following a successful Kickstarter campaign.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Inverted}}, as compared to the more well known version of the story (John Carpenter's Film/TheThing), the original version of the Thing was nowhere near as dangerous. This version was a blob monster that had to envelope and digest its prey to copy them and duplicate them. Large enough pieces could absorb living things but they were implied to be large enough that if you were attacked, you could most likely fight the pieces off. Carpenter's version was an AsteroidsMonster that could infect people like a virus and even a drop of blood could infect you, multiply, and slowly assimilate you. Also, this thing could only assume one form at a time whereas Carpenter's thing could take on composite forms based on the creatures previously absorbed and copied.

* AdaptationalWimp: {{Inverted}}, as compared to the more well known version of the story (John Carpenter's Film/TheThing), the original version of the Thing was nowhere near as dangerous. This version was a blob monster that had to envelope and digest its prey to copy them and duplicate them. Large enough pieces could absorb living things but they were implied to be large enough that if you were attacked, you could most likely fight the pieces off. Carpenter's version was an AsteroidMonster that could infect people like a virus and even a drop of blood could infect you, multiply, and slowly assimilate you. Also, this thing could only assume one form at a time whereas Carpenter's thing could take on composite forms based on the creatures previously absorbed and copied.

''Who Goes There?'' is a {{science fiction}} novella written by Creator/JohnWCampbell. It was published under the pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938 in the magazine ''Magazine/AstoundingStories''. It directly inspired the 1951 movie ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' and the 1982 Creator/JohnCarpenter movie ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'' (and more loosely inspired 1972's ''Film/HorrorExpress''), and indirectly influenced the next few decades of science fiction by inspiring other authors to rip it off. ''Series/TheXFiles'', for instance, adapted it ''twice'', and ''Series/TheTerror'' is something of a Victorian-era homage.

* AdaptationalWimp: Compared to the more well known version of the story(John Carpenter's Film/TheThing) based on this one. This version of the Thing (the original version) was nowhere near as dangerous as Carpenter's later version. This version was a blob monster that had to envelope and digest its prey to copy them and duplicate them. Large enough pieces could absorb living things but they were implied to be large enough that if you were attacked, you could most likely fight the pieces off. Carpenter's version was an AsteroidMonster that could infect people like a virus and even a drop of blood could infect you, multiply, and slowly assimilate you. Also, this thing could only assume one form at a time whereas Carpenter's thing could take on composite forms based on the creatures previously absorbed and copied.

You can read the novella [[https://archive.org/details/WhoGoesThere_201710 here]].

* LostInCharacter: The Things.
--> [[spoiler: Garry spoke in a low, bitter voice. "Connant was one of the finest men we had here—and five minutes ago I'd have sworn he was a man. Those damnable things are more than imitation." Garry shuddered and sat back in his bunk.]]
--> [[spoiler: And thirty seconds later, Garry's blood shrank from the hot platinum wire.]]

* TheAssimilator: It's a little different (and slightly less nightmarish) than the movie version created by John Carpenter. While the thing can absorb people and create multiple copies, the creature is less like a virus and more of [[BlobMonster highly morphological plasticity]]. While pieces of its body will act independently of the main body, it seems unable to infect and devour people from within by using its blood or just a few cells. Instead this version of the thing seems to envelop and [[YouAreWhoYouEat digest organisms to copy them]] and grown more copies. Still horrific but less so than an enemy that can [[ParanoiaFuel attack you on a cellular level]]. The dogs are theorized to have bitten off pieces large enough that the pieces were still alive and could digest them from within.

''Who Goes There?'' is a {{science fiction}} novella written by Creator/JohnWCampbell. It was published under the pen name Don A. Stuart in 1938 in the magazine ''Magazine/AstoundingStories''. It directly inspired the 1951 movie ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' and the 1982 Creator/JohnCarpenter movie ''[[Film/TheThing1982 The Thing]]'' (and more loosely inspired 1972's ''Film/HorrorExpress''), and indirectly influenced the next few decades of science fiction by inspiring other authors to rip it off. ''Series/TheXFiles'', for instance, adapted it ''twice''.

You can read the novella [[http://www.outpost31.com/books/who.txt here]].