I'm sorry but it is seriously remarkable how the only cultural footprint that this franchise has left left is the phrase "Unobtanium" on TV Tropes, and I'm like 80% sure that the trope name pre-dates the film.

I was hospitalized twice in the space of a week due food poisoning from a local fried chicken joint. I refuse to even be near chicken now because of it.

Shadow out of Time, because it shows Lovecraft's views as a person starting to shift and makes me wonder who he would have been had he not died at 37.

Plus it confirms humans survive for at least a few centuries in the mythos, despite Lovecraft's nihilistic worldbuilding.

$100 is a 1300-word short story in an SFWA-rated market. As an advance on a novel, it's criminally low.