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'''''Frozen Hell''''' is a book written by John W. Campbell Jr. in 1938. Campbell published an abridged version of the book, titled ''Who Goes There?'' in 1938, but the complete work remained lost until 2019. ''Who Goes There?'' had four film adaptations: ''The Thing From Another World'' (1951, Christian Nyby); ''Horror Express'' (1972, Bernard Gordon); ''The Thing'' (1982, John Carpenter); and ''The Thing'' (2011, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.). After the discovery of the full book, Alan Donnes announced that he would be the executive producer of a new film, which would be the first film adaptation of the full book.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200828172128/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/posts/2740158 Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, Update #63]</ref> | '''''Frozen Hell''''' is a book written by John W. Campbell Jr. in 1938. Campbell published an abridged version of the book, titled ''Who Goes There?'' in 1938, but the complete work remained lost until 2019. ''Who Goes There?'' had four film adaptations: ''The Thing From Another World'' (1951, Christian Nyby); ''Horror Express'' (1972, Bernard Gordon); ''The Thing'' (1982, John Carpenter); and ''The Thing'' (2011, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.). After the discovery of the full book, Alan Donnes announced that he would be the executive producer of a new film, which would be the first film adaptation of the full book.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200828172128/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/posts/2740158 Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, Update #63] Retrieved 23 Jan '21</ref> | ||
==Finding== | ==Finding== | ||
The manuscript of ''Frozen Hell'' was discovered in 2018 in the documents of John W. Campbell Jr. by Alec Nevala-Lee when doing research for a book he was writing titled ''Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190408001905/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/faqs Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, FAQs]</ref> Nevala-Lee gave the manuscript to John Betancourt, who runs Wildside Press, an independent publishing company. In October | The manuscript of ''Frozen Hell'' was discovered in 2018 in the documents of John W. Campbell Jr. by Alec Nevala-Lee when doing research for a book he was writing titled ''Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190408001905/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/faqs Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, FAQs] Retrieved 23 Jan '21</ref> Nevala-Lee gave the manuscript to John Betancourt, who runs Wildside Press, an independent publishing company. In October 2018, Betancourt created a Kickstarter campaign to publish the book, which received $155,366 of its $1,000 goal. The book was published and began shipping to backers in January of 2019.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200926162329/https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildsidepress/frozen-hell-the-book-that-inspired-the-thing/description Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, Description] Retrieved 23 Jan '21</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 04:56, 13 April 2023
The cover of the 2019 publication.
Status: Found
Date found: Oct 2018 (discovered)
Jan 2019 (published)
Found by: Alec Nevala-Lee (discovered)
Wildside Press (published)
Frozen Hell is a book written by John W. Campbell Jr. in 1938. Campbell published an abridged version of the book, titled Who Goes There? in 1938, but the complete work remained lost until 2019. Who Goes There? had four film adaptations: The Thing From Another World (1951, Christian Nyby); Horror Express (1972, Bernard Gordon); The Thing (1982, John Carpenter); and The Thing (2011, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.). After the discovery of the full book, Alan Donnes announced that he would be the executive producer of a new film, which would be the first film adaptation of the full book.[1]
Finding
The manuscript of Frozen Hell was discovered in 2018 in the documents of John W. Campbell Jr. by Alec Nevala-Lee when doing research for a book he was writing titled Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction.[2] Nevala-Lee gave the manuscript to John Betancourt, who runs Wildside Press, an independent publishing company. In October 2018, Betancourt created a Kickstarter campaign to publish the book, which received $155,366 of its $1,000 goal. The book was published and began shipping to backers in January of 2019.[3]
References
- ↑ Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, Update #63 Retrieved 23 Jan '21
- ↑ Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, FAQs Retrieved 23 Jan '21
- ↑ Frozen Hell: The Book That Inspired The Thing, Kickstarter, Description Retrieved 23 Jan '21