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Creature From the Black Lagoon Again

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 7th, 2006

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Boing Boing has a good new posting on the just-released Creature From the Black Lagoon novel.

Cory Doctorow writes: "If you’re looking for a fun little paperback to take you away from your life for a couple hours, you need look no further."

Perhaps we all will need this after the election is over today…

As I’ve mentioned at Cryptomundo before, the original concept for the movie developed from the excitement in the early 1950s that surrounded the Comoros Islands (near Madagascar) discovery of a "living fossil," the coelacanth. After its initial find in 1938, and the eventual acceptance that an animal thought extinct for 65 millions was still alive today, the race was on to find the next specimen. When that second coelacanth was found in 1952, it became a bigger worldwide media event that the capture of the first.

"Creature From the Black Lagoon" was a graphic result of the public’s interest in this grand adventure story, as many at the time felt the coelacanth was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of future "living fossils" to be encountered. Put in context, it is easy to see why Ivan T. Sanderson and Bernard Heuvelmans, in the 1940s and 1950s, would formulate the notion of and coin the word "cryptozoology," then.

I mentioned this novel earlier here on September 9, 2006, noting:

Creature From The Black Lagoon

There is a new cryptofiction novel, Creature From The Black Lagoon: Time’s Black Lagoon.

Book Description

In 1954, an expedition found what seemed to be a missing link in the evolutionary chain: an ancient, immensely powerful amphibian creature. Scientists tried to tame it, break its will, and even change its very being with surgery and torture, but the beast rebelled, killing nearly all in its way. But was the creature truly a throwback, a freak survivor of some prehistoric era — or was it something more?

Six decades later, one scientist attempts to find out, using a time machine to journey into the past. What he finds not only shatters his vision of what the Creature might be, but could change the history of the human race forever. Paul Di Filippo reinvents the Creature with a tale of time travel, horror, and mystery that blends Cold War science fiction with today’s cutting edge cyberpunk.

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stillserchin responds: November 7th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
My favorite movie monster of all time,”The Gill Man” with it’s sequels. The new book sounds interesting.
Tobar responds: November 7th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Ugh, that book still sounds awful.
jasonpix6 responds: November 7th, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Loved the first 3, sure hope this one makes it to the silver screen!
stonelk responds: November 7th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
The book sounds like a stinker. Ole fish face is still one of my favorites. I turn the local school into a haunted house every year for Halloween. This year we did up one room as a gruesome living room complete with a TV showing old horror films. The kids were piling up in there to watch Creature From the Black Lagoon. I have not seen it in a while but I don’t remember seeing any blood in the original film. I have heard rumors of a remake and you can be sure Hollywood will teach “Gill Man” to use those wicked claws.
Lordofshades70 responds: November 8th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Stonelk is right. Hollywood has a tendency to demonize and vilify the unknown. They made Bigfoot kill people, Chupacabras hunt people, nessie overturn boats and the devour the crew. I’d hate to see what they make this poor creature do :(. Even the recent “KING Kong,” film had the gentle giant portrayed as a serial killer in a monkey suit. It’s a shame.
thegoblinking responds: November 8th, 2006 at 9:57 am
I believe we are going to see a remake of the classic film. Every other classic monster film has been remade, this most likely will be the next.
Roboo8 responds: November 8th, 2006 at 11:32 am
John Carpenter was suppose to remake it after he made “The Thing”. Ebay was selling a copy of the script. I agree they will probably end up remaking it.
mystery_man responds: November 8th, 2006 at 11:50 am
It is unfortunate that these creatures get demonized, but short of a real sasquatch video, who is going to pay money to watch them just cavort about in peace? Who wants to read about the creature from the black lagoon just going about life, minding his own business? This is entertainment and the people who buy this stuff want to see monsters doing what they expect them to do, namely run amok and reak hovoc.
Georgia_Bigfoot responds: November 8th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Man I loved that movie. I’ll never forget my dad taking me to see it in 3-D.
steve responds: November 29th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
“If it ain’t broke, break it!” seems to be the modern treatment of classic monsters. Not only is the Gillman my personal favorite humanoid critter of all time, I am amazed at the story about a co evolution of man from the aspect of fish life. I mean, if this new novel tries to explain this away as though it were a Russian experiment on a human subject, it will destroy the magic of the original 3 movies that have a marvelous continuity, not to mention being absolute artistic perfection in cinema. As well, the fossil Gillman, or Homo Devonius as some fans have tagged him, hand that started the whole trilogy of movies would have to be thrown out the window since the fossil was from Devonian times. In Hollywood and the publishing world, chaos seems to be the rule of the day anymore. *sigh*

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