The Creature Chronicles

He was the final addition to Universal's "royal family" of movie monsters: the Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, 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 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-1950s film career (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Revenge of the Creature, The Creature Walks Among Us) is collected in this 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.

Describes folklore related to monsters or creatures from the sea and discusses how they are portrayed in motion pictures, on television, and in literature.

Secret Service Agent Adam Hunter, tired of the politics and mess of Washington D.C. lands a transfer out of town. Newly assigned to a task force responsible for solving a rash of savage murders in the rural Appalachian Mountains, things quickly take an unnatural turn. The victims found are strewn among the trees like macabre scarecrows, and the high profile murderer everyone is searching for may not be to blame after all. Something ancient and evil has haunted these parts since the settlers ignored the warnings of the first peoples. Now the creature is stalking again, and it's up to Adam to put a stop to it. Making matters worse are a clandestine government agency keeping tabs on him, drug runners eager to keep their turf quiet, and an escaped convict complicating matters. Maybe D.C. wasn't so bad after all...

There were no surprises in Gatlin County. We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere. At least, that's what I thought. Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And in the end, there was a grave. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

The Creature – A Trilogy Chronicle Erik Gonzalez Raiders took everything from Archie Hughes. They broke into his home, stole his family’s valuables, and killed his parents while he hid in the cellar. In Infernus, grizzly scenes like these are common, and Archie’s future consists of roaming the town’s scorching streets. Without a safe place to call home, barely living on raw scraps from the butcher’s storehouse, Archie’s life has become tortured and pointless. In a twist of fate, he finds himself with a difficult decision: accept lifelong servitude to the queen’s mysterious advisor—where a dark, arcane ritual is prepared for him—or kneel at the executioner’s axe, ending his life.

The book is set in a seemingly normal part of New York. However all is not as it seems as a object of incredible magical power is stolen. A group of warriors known as the Nightshadows are tasked with finding and retrieving the object with help from the high races. By accident Katarina, is thrust into this world after a post concert attack by something. With a chance two Nightshadows manage to save her from the attack. Purposefully given something that would make her forget. An accidental encounter a few days later, after she recognizes one her saviors at a record store. She takes an exciting and dangerous journey, into the world just beneath our own.

On a continent devoid of humans, lived demons of immense magical abilities. When life grew mundane, they used their powers to create three new races. Instead of the obedient creatures they had hoped for, an uprising occurs. The life givers find themselves trapped with escape impossible. The Book of Demons was created to unite the three races of creatures, yet it only fuels a future war. The makers of the book could not know when they sealed away their own enemies, they would be creating countless more for generations to come. When young Avia finds herself to be the only living member of her race, she decides to seek revenge on those who stole the sacred book and the lives of all she loved.

A James Herriot for the 21st century recounts his adventures as a newcomer to Newfoundland. When Andrew Peacock made the move from Ontario to Newfoundland, he thought he was kicking off his career as a newly qualified vetenarian with an adventure in a temporary location. It was certainly an adventure, but there was nothing temporary about it. He practiced in Newfoundland for nearly 30 years and is still living there. In fact, he has lived there so long, the locals are starting to think of him as one of them. Creatures of the Rock chronicles a career spent working with and getting to know a rich variety of animals and their owners, on farms, in homes and zoos, and in the wild. Andrew was the only vet for miles around. A day of practice could include anything from a Caesarian section on a cow in a blizzard to freeing a humpback whale from a trap designed for cod to capturing a polar bear after its surprise visit to a bingo parlor. And, on the human side, anything from trying to impress a surpringly large audience of farmers with your first boar castration, to taking care of a family just as well as its stricken cat, to discouraging farm hands from helping themselves to hypodermic needles. All this against the background of a domestic scene in which Andrew's wife Ingrid--also freshly qualified, as a doctor--shares the adventure of making new life, and in due course of starting a family. Told in a series of brief, endlessly engaging stories, Creatures of the Rock is a funny, thrilling, unflinching but ultimately heartwarming narrative about the connections between people and animals, and people with each other.