Oct 18, 2019 · There’s madness in the salty air, the crashing waves and the seagull squawks of The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers’ nautical nightmare about a pair of 19 th-century New England lighthouse keepers ... The short answer is "no". The original story is about a guy who goes into NoEnd House based on an email he received from a former friend. The story follows him through each of the rooms, focusing on the ways in which each room is disturbing or beyond comprehension -- a cheap K-Mart-style Halloween display transitions to inexplicable feelings of dread; a blank room with a chair, a lamp, and too ...