E. K. Leyton – The Creature From The Black Lagoon

E. K. Leyton  [Walter Harris] – The Creature From The Black Lagoon (Star, 1980)

Hidden, it watched her swimming in the lagoon…
It was hideous, bizarre, perhaps a throwback to the age of reptiles, perhaps an awful promise of things to come. Suddenly into its steaming domain came the expedition, intrusive, inquisitive, hostile.
Afraid but undaunted, the creature tried again and again to destroy the invaders. Nothing stood in its way-except its own inexplicable fascination with Kay Lawrence, the only woman aboard the riverboat Rita.
What primitive emotion had caused the monster to spare Kay when others had perished so horribly? And now it had her in its grip, what did the monster want from her…?