The Things
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Things or The Things may refer to:
Music
Things (album), by Uri Caine and Paolo Fresu, 2006
"Things" (Bobby Darin song), 1962; covered by Ronnie Dove, 1975
"Things", a song by Joe Walsh from There Goes the Neighborhood, 1981
"Things", a song by John Cale from HoboSapiens, 2003
"Things", a song by Split Enz, 1979
"Things", a song by Paul Westerberg from 14 Songs, 1993
"The Things", a song by Audio Bullys from Ego War, 2003
Literature
Things, a 1914 novel by Alice Duer Miller
Things: A Story of the Sixties (French: Les Choses: Une histoire des années soixante), a 1965 novel by Georges Perec
"Things", a 1970 short story by Ursula K. Le Guin, originally published as "The End" in the 1970 anthology Orbit 6, edited by Damon Knight
Things, a 1981 picture book by Roger Hargreaves
The Things, a 1994 novel by Martyn Godfrey
Things, a 1997 novel by Rodman Philbrick and Lynn Harnett, the second installment in the Visitors trilogy
"The Things" (short story), a 2010 short story by Peter Watts
Other uses
TheThings, a news website
Things (Chill), a 1984 role-playing game supplement
Things (film), a 1989 Canadian horror film
Things (software), task management software
The Things, recurring characters in the British adult humour comic Viz
The Things, Thing One and Thing Two, from the 1957 children's book The Cat in the Hat by Dr.
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