One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed—as those who take to the water change—and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to a realm whose wonders—destined for him as well—he had spurned with a smoking pistol. This was to be my realm, too—I could not escape it. I would never die, but would live with those who had lived since before man ever walked the earth.

  I met also that which had been her grandmother. For eighty thousand years Pth’thya-l’yi had lived in Y’ha-nthlei, and thither she had gone back after Obed Marsh was dead. Y’ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death into the sea. It was hurt, but not destroyed. The Deep Ones could never be destroyed, even though the palaeogean magic of the forgotten Old Ones might sometimes check them. For the present they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved. It would be a city greater than Innsmouth next time. They had planned to spread, and had brought up that which would help them, but now they must wait once more. For bringing the upper-earth men’s death I must do a penance, but that would not be heavy. This was the dream in which I saw a shoggoth for the first time, and the sight set me awake in a frenzy of screaming. That morning the mirror definitely told me I had acquired the Innsmouth look.

  So far I have not shot myself as my uncle Douglas did. I bought an automatic and almost took the step, but certain dreams deterred me. The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn toward the unknown sea-deeps instead of fearing them. I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror. I do not believe I need to wait for the full change as most have waited. If I did, my father would probably shut me up in a sanitarium as my poor little cousin is shut up. Stupendous and unheard-of splendours await me below, and I shall seek them soon. Iä-R’lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn! Iä! Iä! No, I shall not shoot myself—I cannot be made to shoot myself!

  I shall plan my cousin’s escape from that Canton madhouse, and together we shall go to marvel-shadowed Innsmouth. We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.

  CREDITS

  DIE, MONSTER, DIE!

  (adapted from “The Colour Out of Space”)

  Released October 27, 1965

  Director Daniel Haller

  Screenplay Jerry Sohl

  CAST

  Boris Karloff Nahum Witley

  Nick Adams Stephen Reinhart

  Freda Jackson Letitia Witley

  Suzan Farmer Susan Witley

  Patrick Magee Dr. Henderson

  Leslie Dwyer Potter

  Paul Farrell Jason

  Terence de Marney Merwyn

  Running time: 80 minutes

  (Released in the UK as Monster of Terror)

  Also filmed as:

  The Curse (1987)

  Colour from the Dark (2008)

  COOL AIR

  (adapted from “Cool Air”)

  Broadcast December 8, 1971

  Rod Serling’s Night Gallery

  Director Jeannot Szwarc

  Screenplay Rod Serling

  CAST

  Henry Darrow Dr. Juan Munos

  Beatrice Kay Mrs. Gibbons

  Larry Blake Charles Crowley

  Karl Lukas The Iceman

  Running time: 25 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993)

  Cool Air (2006)

  Chill (2007)

  BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

  (adapted from “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”)

  Released 2006

  Director Barrett J. Leigh and Thom Maurer

  Screenplay Barrett J. Leigh and Thom Maurer

  CAST

  George Peroulas Mental Patrient

  William Sanderson Joe Slaader

  Fountain Yount Edward Eischel

  Greg Fawcett Francis

  Kurt Hargan Dr. Wardlow

  Frank Schuler Peter Slaader

  Marco St. John Dr. Fenton

  Running Time: 84 minutes

  CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR

  (adapted from “The Dreams in the Witch House”)

  Released April 15, 1970

  Director Vernon Sewell

  Screenplay Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln

  CAST

  Boris Karloff Professor John Marsh

  Christopher Lee J.D. Morley

  Mark Eden Robert Manning

  Barbara Steele Lavinia Morley

  Michael Gough Elder

  Virginia Wetherell Eve Morley

  Rupert Davies The Vicar

  Running Time: 89 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)

  THE UNNAMABLE II: THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

  (Adapted from “The Statement of Randolph Carter”)

  Released March 10, 1993

  Director Jean-Paul Ouellette

  Screenplay Jean-Paul Ouellette

  CAST

  Mark Kinsey Stephenson Randolph Carter

  Charles Klausmeyer Eliot Damon Howard

  Maria Ford Alyda Winthrop

  John Rhys-Davies Professor Warren

  Peter Breck Sheriff Hatch

  David Warner Chancellor Thayer

  Running time: 104 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  The Statement of Randolph Carter (2005)

  The Statement (2007)

  The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008)

  THE UNNAMABLE

  (Adapted from “The Unnamable”)

  Released June 1988

  Director Jean-Paul Ouellette

  Screenplay Jean-Paul Ouellette

  CAST

  Mark Kinsey Stephenson Randolph Carter

  Charles Klausmeyer Howard Damon

  Alexandra Durrell Tanya Heller

  Laura Albert Wendy Barnes

  Eben Ham Bruce Weeks

  Blane Wheatley John Babcock

  Mark Parra Joel Manton

  Running time: 87 minutes

  Sequels:

  The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)

  THE DUNWICH HORROR

  (Adapted from “The Dunwich Horror”)

  Released January 14, 1970

  Director: Daniel Haller

  Screenplay: Curtis Hanson, Henry

  Rosenbaum, and Ronald Silkosky

  CAST

  Sandra Dee Nancy Wagner

  Dean Stockwell Wilbur Whateley

  Ed Begley Dr. Henry Armitage

  Lloyd Bochner Dr. Cory

  Sam Jaffe Wizard Whateley

  Joanna Moore Jordan avinia Whateley

  Talia Shire Nurse Cora

  Running time: 90 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Dunwich (2006)

  The Dunwich Horror (2009)

  Sequels:

  Beyond the Dunwich Horror (2008)

  RE-ANIMATOR

  (Adapted from “Herbert West—Reanimator”)

  Released October 18, 1985

  Director Stuart Gordon

  Screenplay Dennis Paoli, William J. Norris, and Stuart Gordon

  CAST

  Jeffrey Combs Herbert West

  Bruce Abbott Dan Cain

  Barbara Crampton Megan Halsey

  David Gale Dr. Carl Hill

  Robert Sampson Dean Alan Halsey

  Gerry Black Mace

  Carolyn Purdy-Gordon Dr. Harrod

  Running time: 86 minutes

  Sequels and spinoffs:

  Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

  Corpse-o-Rama (2001)

  An Imperfect Solution
: A Tale of the Re-Animator (2003)

  Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

  Re-Animator 1942 (2008)

  PICKMAN’S MODEL

  (adapted from “Pickman’s Model”)

  Broadcast December 1, 1971

  Rod Serling’s Night Gallery

  Director Jack Laird

  Screenplay Alvin Sapinsely

  CAST

  Bradford Dillman Richard Upton Pickman

  Louise Sorel Mavis Goldsmith

  Donald Moffatt Uncle George

  Jock Livingston Larry Rand

  Joshua Bryant Eliot Blackman

  Joan Tompkins Mrs. Dewitt

  Running time: 27 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Pickman’s Model (1981)

  Chilean Gothic (2000)

  Pickman’s Model (2003)

  Pickman’s Model (2008)

  THE CALL OF CTHULHU

  (adapted from “The Call of Cthulhu”)

  Released October 7, 2005

  Director Andrew Leman

  Screenplay Sean Branney

  CAST

  Ramón Allen, Jr Louis

  Leslie Baldwin Greta Johansen

  Daryl A. Ball Officer Cassidy

  John Bolen Listener

  Ralph Lucas Professor Angell

  David Mersault Inspector Legrasse

  Clarence Henry Hunt Castro

  Patrick O’ Day Johansen

  Chad Fifer Henry Wilcox

  Running time: 47 minutes

  FROM BEYOND

  (adapted from “From Beyond”)

  Released October 24, 1986

  Director Stuart Gordon

  Screenplay Dennis Paoli

  CAST

  Jeffrey Combs Crawford Tillinghast

  Barbara Crampton Dr. Katherine McMichaels

  Ted Sorel Dr. Edward Pretorius

  Ken Forree Bubba Brownlee

  Carolyn Purdy-Gordon Dr. Bloch

  Bunny Summers Neighbor

  Bruce McGuire Jordan Fields

  Karen Christenfeld Nurse Briden

  Andy Miller Patient

  Running time: 86 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Beyond Lovesauce (2007)

  DAGON

  (adapted from “Dagon” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”)

  Released October 31, 2001

  Director Stuart Gordon

  Screenplay Dennis Paoli

  CAST

  Ezra Godden Paul Marsh

  Raquel Meroño Barbara

  Francisco Rabal Ezequiel

  Macarena GÓmez Uxia Cambarro

  Brendan Price Howard

  Brigit Bofarull Vicki

  Ferran Lahoz Priest

  Running time: 95 minutes

  Also filmed as:

  Screamers (1979)

 


 

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