pIn the horror movie heyday of Universal Pictures, he made the studio back lot his own personal preyground Rondo Hatton, star of the company's Creeper series. The victim of a disfiguring disease, Hatton needed no makeup to play the Creeper, a night-prowling vertebrae-ker, in emThe Pearl of Deathem 1944, emHouse of Horrorsem 1946 and emThe Brute Manem 1946.pp ppA lot of misery and physical pain were packed into Rondo Hatton's 51 years on Earth and he met his challenges with courage. This book tells Hatton's full story and pays tribute with a full biography, the production histories of his five horror movies, artist George Chastain's tribute to other Brute Men of the movies, artwork and an afterword by celebrated pop culture cartoonist Drew Friedman and more. emAlsoem Rondo's miraculous 21st-century rebirth as a coveted award for the finest in Monster Kid achievement.p