A review by chelseamartinez
Dear Creature by Jonathan Case

3.0

Set in the era of Swamp Thing, this book puts together some expendable characters and throws some more crucial fleshed-out weirdos together; Giulietta, with a Janet Leigh pixie cut and hospital gown fashions, the exposed-brain fish creature of the title, some chatty crabs, some honest cops, etc. The section at the end on iambic pentameter not-withstanding, the jokey dialogues between the hero and the crabs was distracting to me but the story could totally be a movie; I think I'm not enough of a romantic for monster flicks though (and... I guess possibly The Shape of Water has done a lot of what's here, though I didn't see it). As the Foreward notes though, the line work is very striking.