Put Them All Together: They Spell Monster

Put Them All Together: They Spell MonsterHave you a better animal?" inquired a Columbia producer of a screenwriter via interoffice memo earlier this year. "They gave up gorillas at Universal and created the creature from beneath the sea, and it gave horror pictures new life."The screenwriter, a good friend of the present chronicler, passed on the memo for my delectation, little realizing the shattering effect it was to have upon me. For, being a rabid monster enthusiast from way b...