When, many years later, Carpenter decided to make his own adaptation of Campbell's novella, he was totally committed to making it as faithful as possible to the original source material, unlike The Thing From Another World, which bore little resemblance to the Campbell story. John Carpenter has actually said that he saw the previous adaptation of Who Goes There?, the classic 1951 film The Thing From Another World, when he was young, and was disappointed by how much it deviated from Campbell's story. The Carpenter film is so loyal to the original material that even the main characters' names are the same, although there are far more characters in the novella than the movie, and the movie character Childs does not appear in the novella. The most readable version I can find is this one, in PDF format. Campbell, which is now available online at no cost. It is a very faithful adaptation of the novella Who Goes There? by John W. No, John Carpenter's The Thing was not influenced by At the Mountains of Madness in any significant way.
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