From the press release:
DH Press is proud to announce the newest addition to
its original Universal Monsters novel series, Creature from the Black
Lagoon: Time’s Black Lagoon. Following in the footsteps of previous DH
Press original novels featuring Dracula and Wolf Man, the Creature has
been revamped with a modern horror sensibility by noted sci-fi author Paul
Di Filippo and is set in the year 2015. This book will be released in
May 2006 at a retail price of $6.99 (ISBN-1-59582-033-7).
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.
Turning the conventions of what we feel we know about the Creature on
its ear, critically-praised science fiction author Di Filippo reinvents
the classic monster with a tale of time travel, horror, and mystery
that blends Cold War science fiction with today’s cutting edge cyberpunk
in a vision of what terrors still lurk in the swamp.
“Di Filippo is like gourmet potato chips to me,” said Harlan Ellison,
famed science-fiction writer. “I can never eat just one of his short
stories.”
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