Ghouls, Gimmicks, and GoldThe Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole Peoplethey stalked and oozed into audiences minds during the era that followed Boris Karloffs Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Childs Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960sand the movies they crawled and staggered