Screen Records

Released and marketed as an Edgar Allan Poe adaptation — the title is lifted from an unrelated 1839 Poe poem, and the closing credits misspell Poe's…

Relocates the account from New England to an English country estate and swaps the unnamed colour for a radioactive meteorite — an explanation a 1960s…

The first adaptation to use the chronicle's real title outright, and the closest in tone to the file it draws from — a hill-town family, an unnatural…

The refrigeration apparatus, the failing seal on the doctor's rented room, the ending's particular unpleasantness — all carried over largely intact.…

Broadcast as one segment of a three-story anthology hour, with a framing device added around it — men touring the abandoned studio in the present…

A seventeen-minute independent short, and the most restrained production on file — no studio, no distributor, no incentive to shape the account into…

An invented account — five students, a remote cabin, a tape recording that should have stayed unplayed — with no chronicle behind it. What earns it a…

The underlying record is accurate to an uncomfortable degree — a Miskatonic Medical School researcher, an illicit reagent, an escalating series of…

The account survives largely intact — the Resonator, the pineal gland, the interdimensional predators sharing its field. What doesn't survive is the…

No chronicle behind this one, or its 1981 predecessor — the book at the center of both is an invented prop, not a dramatization of any case on file.…

The chronicle's entire premise is that the thing resists description past the point language can follow it — that's the case's title. The production…

The second production on file to carry this case past its own ending — the account itself stops well short of a laboratory assembling a composite…

Went into production under the working title The Ancestor. The Curwen–Ward account is followed with more care than most adaptations manage — an…

Filed here for its wraparound segment, 'The Library,' credited on release as drawn from this chronicle. What actually made it to screen bears almost…

An invented account, not a case file on record here: a horror novelist whose books are read by millions, whose fiction turns out, over the course of…

The chronicle's whole engine is sympathy — a thing kept in the dark long enough to become monstrous, meeting its own reflection for the first time.…

Released in some markets under the title Hemoglobin, which alone suggests a production uneasy about what it was actually built from. The degenerate…

The account is faithful in outline — a stranded traveler, an isolated coastal town, an older allegiance to something offshore — but the setting has…

A third outing from the same director, relocating the reagent and its consequences to a prison medical ward the case file never mentions. The…

Produced silent, in black-and-white, under a process the production credits itself as 'Mythoscope' — full immersion in 1926 studio technique…

The original account is a quiet one — a rural asylum inmate, a doctor who starts dreaming what the patient dreams, a mind that turns out not to be…

Files under a production company calling itself Arkham NW, which is either a very good joke or a very bad one. The town itself never appears under…

The case's second screen appearance, and considerably more attentive to Wilbur's own particulars — his premature growth, the true nature of his…

Shot in the Society's now-established period style — this time closer to a 1930s studio sound picture than the earlier production's silent format.…

An invented account of a ritual sacrifice staged to appease something enormous and ancient sleeping beneath the earth, its arrival in the final reel…

No specific chronicle or dossier behind this one, and the resemblance is atmospheric rather than pinned to a named case: a rural hospital, a robed…

An invented account — two brothers returning to the isolated commune they escaped years before, and finding whatever kept them there still active —…

No entity or chronicle on file matches anything in this account directly, and nobody involved in its making has cited this Archive's subject matter…

The record's second screen appearance (see also Die, Monster, Die!, 1965) — and this time nothing was swapped out. The colour stays the colour rather…

On record from the director himself, named alongside M.R. James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Poe as part of a shared reading he and his…

This case's second screen appearance (see also Cthulhu, 2007), and the account survives the move considerably more intact than the relocation might…

Adapted from an original comic, not from any case on file, and neither the director nor the comic's writer has gone on record naming this Archive's…

No chronicle sits behind this one — the account is an invented deep-sea drilling disaster, nothing drawn from any case on file. What earns it a place…

The first screen record on file for this case. Gilman, Keziah Mason, Brown Jenkin, and the house itself all survive the trip intact, but around them…

A second production on file, fifty-one years after the first (see Pickman's Model, 1971), and it makes the same choice under an anthology's different…

An invented account — a reclusive collector, a private gathering, an object recovered from somewhere well outside ordinary geography — with no…