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**** John Carpenter's ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'' is even closer. Indeed, a genealogical connection is plausible: the film is an adaptation of [[John W. Campbell]]'s short story "[[Who Goes There?]]", published in ''[[Astounding Stories]]'' in 1938. Campbell—who became editor of ''Astounding'' that year—would surely have been reading it in 1936, when it published ''At the Mountains of Madness''.
* ''[[The Call of Cthulhu]]'' -- [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Cthulhu]] briefly wakes, and fills the dreams of men with madness. The first and best-known Lovecraftian [[Tabletop Games|Tabletop RPG]] is [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|named after it]] and reprints the story in full.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071101063857/http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society]'' [[H.P. Lovecraft/Lovecraft on Film|adapted]] this story [http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/ to film]{{Dead link}} in 2005, faithful to the original, in the style of a classic 1920s black-and-white silent movie. A must-see.
* ''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward''—Long dead [[Necromancer]] {{spoiler|steals the identity of his [[Identical Grandson|identical great-great-great-grandson]]. After his descendent brings him back to life, the necromancer kills him}}. The source of perhaps one of the most solid pieces of advice for anyone messing with sorcery: "[[Evil Is Not a Toy|Do not call up that which you cannot put down.]]"
** Also used in the Roger Corman film, 'The Haunted Palace'.
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* ''The Rats in the Walls''—The narrator, a man from New England, buys an old keep in England that belonged to his ancestors (and which was erected at the site of much older Roman and iron-age temples) and discovers a [[I'm a Humanitarian|horrifying]] [[Madwoman in the Attic|family]] [[People Farms|secret]] that drives him insane.
* ''The Whisperer in Darkness''—A science fiction First Contact story with strong [[Grand Theft Me|horror elements]]. A scholar and his pen pal friend discover a colony of sinister fungoid space-faring aliens in the mountainous rural backwaters of New England in 1930.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071101063857/http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society]'' [[H.P. Lovecraft/Lovecraft on Film|has]] [[Adaptation Expansion|adapted]] this puppy to [http://www.cthulhulives.org/whisperer/index.html film as well]. The DVD is out and Blu-ray versions are due to be released soon. ''Another'' must-see.
* His ''Dreamland'' stories, among them "[[The Cats of Ulthar]]", ''The Silver Key'', ''Through the Gates of the Silver Key'' and ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''.
** Kadath, it should be noted, encompassed a number of characters from Lovecraft's other stories, ''Pickman's Model'' in particular.
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