Allen A. Debus is a dinosaur sculptor and author of multiple books. He writes regularly for Prehistoric Times, G-Fan, Mad Scientist and Scary Monsters, and was a contributing editor of Fossil News: Journal of Avocational Paleontology. He lives in Hanover Park, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Foreword by J.D. Lees

Introduction: ­Pop-Cultural Evolution of the Prehistoric ­Dino-Monster:

Meaning and Metaphor

Part I.¿Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm

One.¿Sir Humphry Davy's Volcanic Considerations of Life Through

Geological Time

Two.¿Popularizing the ­Life-Through-Time "Paleo-Novel"

Three.¿Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten ­Paleo-Popularizer

Four.¿Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a "dinosaur book" Isn't: Henry Fairfield Osborn's Origin and Evolution of Life (1917)

Five.¿Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time

Six.¿Lovecraft's Paleontological Time Travels

Part II.¿Doomsday Dinosaurs

Seven.¿Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse

Eight.¿Sizing up Radiation's Unnatural Cold War Dangers

Nine.¿Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War-1954

Ten.¿Godzilla's Dinosaurian Origins

Eleven.¿Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die

Twelve.¿"After and Before": Gorgo's Alternate Adventures

Thirteen.¿Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement

Fourteen.¿Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene

Part III.¿Man and Dinosaur as One

Fifteen.¿Decade of the Dinosaur

Sixteen.¿Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space! Science Fiction Becomes Scientific

Seventeen.¿Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast

Eighteen.¿That First Intelligence

Nineteen.¿When Dinosauroids Speak!

Epilogue

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index