the thing on the doorstep

Adaptation of “The Thing on the Doorstep” to be made.

The title is called SUITABLE FLESH, and it’s being described as “erotic body-swapping horror.” Heather Graham and some kid named Judah Lewis have the lead roles*, and I cannot even remotely guess how this will pan out. HPL is notoriously difficult to adapt to the big screen, to the point where you can do wacky things to the plot like this and people will just shrug. You might as well go nuts with it, man; it’s gonna be a crapshoot as to whether it’ll work as a flick anyway.

Moe Lane

*He’s spent the last half of the 2010s doing the teen horror circuit as a teenager, which is… huh. Is that allowed? I mean, in the legal sense obviously it would be, but Hollywood usually doesn’t put actual teenagers in teenager roles.

New DART (Thing on the Doorstep) coming out soon!

As in, maybe by the end of the week.

https://twitter.com/HPLHS/status/765718229947854848

Already pre-ordered; The Thing on the Doorstep is one of HP Lovecraft’s more interesting works for me, because it’s one that takes place in an area that would have been within HPL’s own comfort zone. It’s not out in the wilderness, or the depths of space, or even – horror of horrors! – NYC; this is a horror story that’s set right in the man’s backyard, and that gives it a little extra flavor. Plus, this is one that should work well on radio.

@HPLHS’s ‘Thing on the Doorstep’ Dark Adventure Radio Theater going to the CD printer’s.

If that’s what that sort of thing is called, mind you. Anyway, I’m looking forward to the latest DART: I finally managed to finish both The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At The Mountains of Madness last weekend (listened to ’em while building furniture), so The Thing on the Doorstep will come just in time*. It’s a shame that Lovecraft never developed that story further: it might have had the legs to be a novella or even novel.

*Although there are any other number of CDs that I have yet to buy…