"From Beyond" is a horror genre short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10). The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator, detailing his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. Sharing the experience with Tillinghast, the narrator becomes aware of a translucent, interdimensional environment that overlaps our recognized reality. From this perspective, he witnesses hordes of strange and horrific creatures that defy description.
Adaptations (1)
From Beyond was adapted into a 1986 film.
From Beyond1986 · film · 85 min · dir. Stuart Gordon · IMDb ↗The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
