Andrew Moore asked Matt Ruff:

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Matt Ruff I think the forest scene is a great example of how the series captures the spirit of the novel while making necessary and interesting changes to some of the specifics. So for example, the “shoggoth” in the novel is basically a living shadow, which works as a prose description but is tough to portray visually in a night scene. Turning my shadow monster into a pack of carnivorous white worms works fine – now you can see them, and they’re still scary as hell, even if I do also want one as a plush toy.

And I loved the bit where Atticus, Letitia, and George get trapped in the cabin with Sheriff Hunt. This, too, is partly necessity – unless you’re doing heavy-handed voiceovers, you need group scenes so that characters in your TV show can *say* stuff that they’d just *think* in a novel – but it’s also really clever, to have them trapped inside with one kind of monster while the other kind of monster is circling outside. And then, with Hunt’s transformation, the two threats merge and become one. That’s just great.

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