[CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - FILM & NOVEL]. STATTEN, VARGO (FEARN, JOHN RUSSELL). Creature from the Black Lagoon by Vargo Statten. Minneapolis, MN: DreamHaven Books, 2011. Limited to 250 copies signed by the stars of the film Julie Adams and Ricou Browning who played the creature. Written by John Russell Fearn under the pseudonym Vargo Statten. Illustrated with black & white stills from the film. Fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket, 192 pages, including an afterword'John Russell Fearn and the Creature from the Black Lagoon' by Philip Harbottle. The iconic sci-fi film Creature from the Black Lagoon was directed by Jack Arnold, starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell, Ben Chapman, and Ricou Browning.