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The Mummy Revisited

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I have previously covered the Universal Mummy series, which you can find here . This post will cover the remake of the film. GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL) Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times) Series: King Kong (Original) Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel) Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu Manchu The Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since. Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Ph...

H.P. Lovecraft: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The  Cthulhu  Mythos  is a  shared fictional universe , based on the work of  American   horror  writer  H. P. Lovecraft . The term was first coined by  August Derleth , a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature  Cthulhu —a central figure in Lovecraft literature [1]  and the focus of Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " (first published in  pulp magazine   Weird Tales  in 1928)—to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The writer  Richard L. Tierney  later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories. [2] Authors writing in the  Lovecraftian milieu  use elements of the Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe. [3] From me: I know I said I wasn't...