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Film & television

From Beyond (1986)

From Beyond expands Lovecraft’s brief experiment in altered perception into a feature about scientific ambition, desire and bodily transformation. Stuart Gordon’s adaptation retains Crawford Tillinghast and the resonator while redistributing their roles within a substantially new story.

4 min read · 777 words

Literature

The Book

The Book is an unfinished account of a reader whose discovery of an anonymous manuscript opens successive passages beyond familiar space and time. Its narrator has gained extraordinary perception at the cost of a stable identity and an ordinary relation to the world. The surviving text leaves both the book’s title and the final outcome unknown.

3 min read · 491 words