He was the final addition to Universal's "royal family" of movie monsters: The Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armour, razor claws and a face only a mother octopus could love, this Amazon denizen was perhaps the most fearsome beast in the history of Hollywood's Studio of Horrors. But he also possessed a sympathetic, poignant quality which elevated him fathoms above the many aquatic monsters who swam in his wake. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Gill Man and his mid-50s career (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us) is collected in The Creature Chronicles, a book packed to the gills with hour-by-hour production histories, cast bios, analyses, explorations of the music, script-to-screen comparisons, in-depth interviews and an ocean of fin-tastic photos.