Joe Lansdale told me today that he'd just watched a movie called 20 Million Miles to Earth. As it happens, I own the old one-off issue of Amazing Stories devoted the the novelization by Henry Slesar. It has one of my favorite covers from that era of digest magazines, so I had to get it out and have a look. I remember reading this novel and seeing the movie nearly 50 years ago. I thought the book was good, and of course I loved the movie. Ray Harryhausen did the effects, and the monster depicted on the cover of the magazine looks almost as good in the movie as he does here. I don't remember that he carries around a woman in his hand in the movie, but he does fight an elephant.
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