MONSTER ON THE LOOSE
Sam Slade didn't believe in Gorgo until he saw the monster's hideous scaly face, its slimy green talons and the massive mouth that could swallow a killer whale.
Sam didn't believe in love, either, until he met virginal Moira McCartin and helped her to discover the deep passions slumbering within her.
Moira taught him to love and Gorgo taught him to fear. Spewn from some sub-oceanic cavern, the monster catapulted from the sea, threatening death for all who challenged it.
Captured, it presented even more of a problem, for deep in the bowels of the sea was a larger, more vicious monster, even now rising from the depths to rescue its offspring and to destroy everything in its path - battleships, tanks and half of London!

A Monarch Movie Book
Published in July, 1960
© 1960 by King Brothers Productions.

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SPAWN OF HELL
Reptilicus, the gargantuan prehistoric monster, crouched on the ocean bottom, ready to take off on another destructive rampage. A depth charge thundered. One of the beast's legs ripped from the body and was blown out of the sea. General Grayson looked at the girl beside him, wondering if he would live to enjoy Connie's warm, vibrant flesh again. Svend Alstrup, his aide, was remembering Karen's wanton seduction of him and hoping for a repeat performance.
Suddenly, Grayson panicked, realizing that if they blew the animal to pieces, each section would grow into a new monster. That was the ultimate danger - a whole new generation of giant, reptilian monstrosities roaming the earth and annihilating civilization.
He gave the order to cease firing...

A Monarch Movie Book. Published in July, 1961
© 1961 by Cinemagic Inc.

Dean Owen, one of the most popular of present day authors, was born in Rialto, California. He spent his early years at the Clark Ranch deep in the San Bernadino Mountains. After college he devoted himself to the writing of radio serials and magazine stories. Later, he joined a Hollywood trade paper as radio-television editor. He is the author of more than 40 Western and suspense novels, including two recent Monarch Movie Book Bestsellers, KONGA and THE BRIDES OF DRACULA.