Who created the character “the creature from the black lagoon”?
The Creature from the Black Lagoon was influenced by H. P. Lovecraft, who wrote tales of strange creatures who never evolved from amphibians. Lovecraft wrote of a mythical town called Innsmouth (The Shadow over Innsmouth, Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936) , where greenish, watery-eyed creatures raised their collars to hide the gills that protruded from their necks.
