Lots of great suggestions here. One movie I’d like to highlight is Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, which I found to be fun, clever, and utterly charming.

Would you believe, there was a Dark Water English remake?

Didn’t it take Stephen king something like 30 years to finish his dark tower series?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English-language_operas

If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it

Thank you all. This was very helpful.

This is my first time encountering his work. When I read the title of this post, I interpreted it as “artwork title - credited artist”. so I thought that “the internet’s sweetheart (for understandable reasons)” was the title of the artwork in the thumbnail.

It would indeed be perfectly understandable why that crawling mummy thing would be the internet’s sweetheart though.

In case you are curious, it was adapted from a story by John W Campbell.

I live in one of the states that required a prescription. I drove across state lines last week to get my booster shot. Looks like if I had waited a little longer I could have saved myself a three hour round trip.

Forgive the pedantry. It’s me hearties.

I recommend the book On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Sounds like it’s exactly what you’re looking for.