Did you even realize 'The Thing' was based on a book?

*Cue '80s movie body horror*
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Did you even realize 'The Thing' was based on a book?
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It's time for some good ol' fashioned practical FX goopiness as we look back at John Carpenter's classic The Thing. But John W. Campbell Jr.'s novella Who Goes There? inspire ALL of the 1982 film? With no restraint on SPOILERS it's time to ask, What's the Difference?

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