career, much of which uses similar plot devices to those described, such as entities beyond comprehension and protagonists driven mad by their experiences. Joel Manton: The character of Joel Manton is based on Lovecraft's friend Maurice W. Moe. Manton is principal of the "East High School", while Moe taught at Milwaukee's West Division High School; Moe, like Manton, is a religious believer, in contrast to Carter's (and Lovecraft's) skepticism. The Unnamable: Lovecraft leaves the exact nature and origins of the Unnamable itself vague. It is hinted that it was born in the late 17th or early 18th century, and kept hidden away in the attic of the now-abandoned house associated with the legend. The original reports of the creature, as told by Carter, indicate a devil-like figure. There are references throughout the story to the creature having horns and hooves, and Carter, when relating how he found the thing's bones in the attic of the old house, mentions "four-inch horns, but a face and jaw something like yours and mine." There are also references to the thing's "blemished eye," and a "screaming drunken wretch that they hanged for having such an eye." Eventually, the legends, in the words of Carter, "take on a spectral character - I suppose the thing, if it was a living thing, must have died." After their encounter in the cemetery, Manton describes the monster as "everywhere -- a gelatin -- a slime -- yet it had shapes, a thousand shapes of horror beyond all memory. There were eyes -- and a blemish." Tellingly, the men are left with wounds of hooves and horns. Adaptations "The Unnamable" has been loosely adapted into two motion pictures. Both films were written and directed by Jean-Paul Ouellette and have only a tangential connection to the original short story: The Unnamable (1988) and The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993). A closer adaptation is a 2011 short film by Sascha Renninger, Shadow of the Unnamable. Other media The Unnamable features prominently in ‘’Lovecraftian: The Shipwright Circle’’ by Steven Philip Jones. The ‘’Lovecraftian’’ series reimagines the weird tales of H. P. Lovecraft into one single universal modern epic. References Sources Definitive version. External links "H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Unnamable'" at The H. P. Lovecraft Archive (publication history) 1925 short stories Cthulhu Mythos short stories Fantasy short stories Massachusetts in fiction Short stories adapted into films Short stories by H.