This is definitely a book for the serious movie buff, or series fan of the Creature movies. The sheer depth of knowledge and trivia in this book is mind boggling, the author clearly knows this topic from front to back and his love of the Creature movies shines through on every page.
There are behind the scene stories, histories of all of the major players both before, during and after the movies were filmed, many, many photographs, detailed descriptions of the filming and reactions to the films. This is an incredible all inclusive look at not just The Creature From The Black Lagoon movies but at Hollywood at the time they were made as well.

While I say that this book is for the serious movie fans that does not mean it isn't accessible to the casual movie history fan as well. The writing is very engaging and inviting and never feels stuffy or elitist, like it was written only for knowledgeable film fans, just the opposite, it felt as though this book was written to appeal to as many as possible to better spread the authors enthusiasm and love for the topic. And overall it works very well. There were a few sections that felt a bit overwhelming, the section on how the first movies score was created and how Universal reused music from movie to movie got to be a bit of a challenge to get through and once in a while I did feel as if I was being given to much information but overall this did not detract from the rest of the book.

I haven't seen any of these movies since I was a child and I deliberately decided to not watch any until after I had read the book to see how well this would hold of up someone who wasn't a major fan and it held up quite well, in fact it made me even more interested in seeing these movies and it gave me a deeper respect for the work and creativity that went into these movies.