Kinner-Thing is a Thing creature created through the cook Kinner from Who Goes There? novel only. Kinner was apparently assimilated while milking The Big Magnet's small herd of cattle, which McReady later determined to be infected. Either driven insane by fear or mimicking insanity, the Kinner-Thing was locked away in the Cosmos House, where it constantly and loudy screamed, prayed and sung hymns for hours until the Clark-Thing, fed up, stabbed it to 'death'. McReady, Barclay, Van Wall and Norris examined the body and saw that the hand was turning into a furry paw-like appendage with thick talons, McReady cut the imitation 'half in two' with a large knife and Barclay finally destroyed the Kinner-Thing with with an electric cattle prod. Norris later commented on the Thing's acting ability;