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- Recommended by RickTyger
- Source of many a piece of information and a great many ongoing discussions about the nature of the Things. Also includes sections for the prequel and the game.
- Recommended by RickTyger
- The definitive The Thing fansite. Has a very large collection of information about the movie and plenty of fan works.
The Things by Peter Watts for Clarkesworld Magazine
- Recommended by Jonn
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: The Thing from the point of view of the Thing.
- Comments: Creepy as the film itself, and it explains several questions about the infection. Non-linear though, so you may want to brush up on the film's synopsis.
- Spectral Time: Great story, lame, contrived, needlessly-evil ending.
- Pepinson: Sounded pretty righteous to me.
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
by Wayne Barlowe has an entry on the Thing.
- Recommended by JackG
- Synopsis: A mock field guide including artist impressions, in this case the alien morphing from a husky into its natural form.
- Recommend by Melinda
- Status:' Complete
- Synopsis: A Fix Fic of sorts combing plot elements and characters from both movies. Here, before Garry can shoot Lars (in his pursuit of the sled dog) McReady knocks out the Norwegian with a bottle of scotch. They then listen to their prisoners story, at first skeptically, but then they find reasons to believe it (along with a certain American scientist in a nearby Sno-Cat) and with this new influx of knowledge, the fight gets a little more even.
- Comments: The story does an impressive job of capturing the feel of most, if not all of the characters as the movies depicted them. There are some cunning plot twists and good Not His Sled moments. The Thing itself is still a terrifying and deadly threat in spite of this new advantage.
Unfinished Business (The Thing)
- Recommended by JohnAlexanderHitchcock
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: An optimistic continuation of both the Carpenter film and the prequel centered around the survivors teaming up with a Russian expedition team to destroy the Thing once and for all.
- Recommended by mariic
- Status: Dormant
- Synopsis: What happens when a group of friends have an all night gaming session? Everyone's just there to have fun and roll some dice, but the GM has his own plans for how this game is going to end. Mac, a board gamer and odd man out, must try to keep the group together under extreme stress. What is the GM planning, and why doesn't anyone seem to know what this game is about? Who Goes There, the last game you will ever play.
Smoke Signals As a Cry For Help by gumsneaker
- Recommended by CantodInverno
- Status: Complete
- Synopsis: MacReady, Nauls, Childs and Fuchs survive the Thing and have to face what they went through, while traveling through America to break the news of their mates' death to their loved ones.
- Tags: Post-Canon
- Comments: this one-shot is centered around trauma, paranoia, grief and survivor's guilt in a respectful and true-to-life way, and it's an interesting exploration of what feelings the final survivors from horror movies would realistically go through.
- Recommended by Peryton
- Status: Complete
- Pairings: Eywa/The Thing.
- Synopsis: Eywa finds true love in the form of an assimilatory alien organism.
- Tags: Crackfic, Darkfic (it's humorous in tone, but it contains quite a lot of Fridge Horror and potentially terrifying descriptions), Yuri, Mars Needs Women
