Herman Stein

Herman Stein's obituary photo in The New York Times is something monster lovers would themselves be willing to die for, the elderly film composer wearing some kind of lab coat and cradling the head of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Stein grins broadly in the shot, so perhaps he was not thinking about good old "Blacky Lagoony" when he made the following comment concerning a retrospective of monster films he worked on in the '50s and '60s: "There are pictures here you've never heard of, because you're lucky." Formerly one of the staff composers at Universal Studios, a one...