Kronenberg Steve - ˜Theœ Creature Chronicles Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy

INTERVIEW BOOKS BY TOM WEAVER

A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers (2010)

I Talked with a Zombie: Interviews with 23 Veterans of Horror and Sci-Fi Films and Television (2009; paperback 2014)

Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers: 20 Interviews (2005; paperback 2014)

Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews (2003)

(A combined edition of the two earlier Weaver titles Attack of the Monster Movie Makers and They Fought in the Creature Features)

Eye on Science Fiction: 20 Interviews with Classic SF and Horror Filmmakers (2003; paperback 2007)

Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with 23 Monster Stars and Filmmakers (2002; paperback 2010)

I Was a Monster Movie Maker: Conversations with 22 SF and Horror Filmmakers (2001; paperback 2011)

Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes: The Mutant Melding of Two Volumes of Classic Interviews (2000)

(A combined edition of the two earlier Weaver titles Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers and Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes)

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks: Conversations with 24 Actors, Writers, Producers and Directors from the Golden Age (1998; paperback 2004)

It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition (1996; paperback 2004)

They Fought in the Creature Features: Interviews with 23 Classic Horror, Science Fiction and Serial Stars (1995; paperback 2014)

Attack of the Monster Movie Makers: Interviews with 20 Genre Giants (1994; paperback 2014)

Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers of the1940s through 1960s (1991; paperback 2006)

Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup (1988; paperback 2006)

OTHER BOOKS BY TOM WEAVER

John Carradine: The Films (1999; paperback 2008)

Poverty Row HORRORS! Monogram, PRC and Republic Horror Films of the Forties (1993; paperback 1999)

BY TOM WEAVER WITH MICHAEL BRUNAS AND JOHN BRUNAS

Universal Horrors: The Studios Classic Films, 19311946, 2d ed. (1990; illustrated casebound 2007)

ALL FROM MCFARLAND

Introduction by Julie Adams

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Chapter 7, A Brief History of the Black Lagoon Bugle, copyright David J. Schow, 1999, revised 2014. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Chapter 8, Revenge of the Return of the Remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, copyright David J. Schow, 1993, revised 2014. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Ned Comstock of the USC Cinema-Television Library. Ive been writing about the monster oldies for 30 years, and Ned has to be the most bend-over-backwards-nice guy Ive ever encountered. Welllll, alongside of:

Bob Burns, the heart and soul of the Monster Kid Universe. Schecter, Kronenberg and I could have done this book without Bob. The book would have turned out sucktacular, but we coulda done it.

David J. Schow, another great go-to guy for all things Creatureand yet again, a guy with a heart big as a lagoon.

Dr. Robert J. Kiss, an amazingly resourceful researcher, and the kind of guy who cannot respond to a movie-related question with anything less than four or five pages of wonderful information!

Ricou Browning. The fact that he played the Gill Man has never meant the Earth, moon and stars to him and yet hes put up with 1000 questions from me, 900 of them quite inane, over a span of more than two decades, with never a peep of complaint. Thank you for the thousandth time, Ricou!Tom Weaver

No evidence of an aquatic humanoid?? Our little friends at National Oceanic are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

Yes, National Oceanic, there is a Gill Man. He exists as certainly as fannish love for him exists in the hearts of Baby Boomer Monster Kids who saw his movies theatrically back in the Fabulous 50s and/or on TV. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Gill Man! It would be as dreary as if it were without the wonderful folks who went above and beyond for this book:

Everett Aaker, Susan Acosta, Julie Adams, Ron Adams, John Agar, John Alland, Susan Alland, William Alland, Arthur Anderson, John Antosiewicz, Brad Arrington, John Athanason, Buddy Barnett, Mike Barnum, Sally Baskin, Marty Baumann, Jere Beery, Jr., John Beifuss, Judeena Blackmer, Michael Blake, Larry Blamire, Ted Bohus, Gibby Brand, Patrick Briggs, Ricou Browning, John Brunas, Michael Brunas, Jon Burlingame, Bob Burns, James H. Burns, Kathy Burns, James Caperton, John Carcaba, John Carpenter, Sandy King Carpenter, Chris Casteel, Ben Chapman, Didier Chatelain, Lissa Morrow Christian, all the marvelous folks on the Classic Horror Film Board, Jim Clatterbaugh, David Colton, Ned Comstock, Heidi Conley, Dick Contino, Ann Cullen, Glenn Damato, Dennis Daniel, Joe Dante, Janlou de Amicis Silva, Richard Denning, Maury Dexter, Frank Dietz, Henry Escalante, Harry Essex, Julian Fant, Michael Fox, Robert M. Fresco, Bob Furmanek, Scott Gallinghouse, Kerry Gammill, Mike Gannon, Beverly Garland, Dick Gautier, Dorothy Gertz, Irving Gertz, Brett Halsey, Susan Hart, Irma B. Havens, Richard Heft, Tom Hennesy, Charles Henson, John Herbert, Dee Denning Hewett, D.J. Hoek, Robert Hoy, Kathleen Hughes, Jeffrey Hugo, Cortlandt Hull, Marsha Hunt, Joe Indusi, Jeff Janeczko, Jeff Joseph, Joe Kane, Steve Kaplan, Larry Kartiganer, Dr. Annette Kaufman, Merrilee Kazarian, Doug Kennedy, Jack Kevan, Bob King, Robert J. Kiss, Richard Kline, Hal Lane, Harris Lentz, Renee Le Feuvre, Tim Lilley, Terry Lipsit, Gary Lockwood, Donna Lucas, Greg MacAyeal, Adie Grey Mackenzie, Boyd Magers, Ginny Mancini, Henry Mancini, Greg Mank, Maurice Manson, Mark Martucci, Richard Matheson, Elizabeth Maury, Kathleen Mayne, Dave McDonnell, Charles McNabb, Greg Megowan, Jan Merlin, Bob Meyer, John Morgan, Jeff Morrow, Bruce Mozert, Kristina Murphy, Edward Mussallem, Dave Narz, John Narz, MaryLou Narz, Robert Neill, Lori Nelson, Ted Newsom, Greg Nicotero, Vikki Megowan Noblitt, Gregg Palmer, Cynthia Patrick, Delee Perry, Joseph Pevney, Mark Phillips, William Phipps, the Photofest Gang, Ina Poindexter, Gary Prange, Kenisha Ramsay, Frederick Rappaport, Rex Reason, Shirley Ann Reason, David Redman, Joe Reiner, William Reynolds, Alan K. Rode, Allan Rosen, Arthur Ross, Robert Rotten, Mary Runser, Hans J. Salter, Mikki Sampo, John Saxon, Dan Scapperotti, Joe Sorko Schovitz, David J. Schow, Rich Scrivani, Gloria Selph, Curt Siodmak, Dennis Skotak, Robert Skotak, Ginger Stanley, Richard Stapley, Herman Stein, John Stephens, Bonnie Stevenson, Stephen Strimpell, Larri Thomas, Tony Timpone, Charles A. Tingley, Laura Wagner, Clint Walker, Michelle Weis, Craig Wichman, Lucy Chase Williams, Wade Williams, Mark Wingfield, Annie Wollock and Jack N. Young.