[CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - FILM & NOVEL]. STATTEN, VARGO (FEARN, JOHN RUSSELL). Creature from the Black Lagoon by Vargo Statten. A movie tie-in novel written by John Russell Fearn under the pseudonym Vargo Statten issued to coincide with the release of the iconic sci-fi film Creature from the Black Lagoon. The film was directed by Jack Arnold, starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Whit Bissell, Ben Chapman, and Ricou Browning. Trace of tanning to the endpapers, else a near fine copy with a narrow strip of fading to the top edge of the ...