02794cam a22004333u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500190014326400510016230000470021333600260026033700260028633800360031249000180034849000410036650000470040750000310045450800960048552013550058153400860193665300180202265300170204065300230205765300260208070000310210670000350213770000310217283000180220383000410222185600550226285600430231776435UtSlPG20260610134753.0mcr n260607r20251937utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aBloch, Robert,d1917-199414aThe black kiss 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aMichael Leigh1 aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937.  aAlso published with the title: Sea kissed.  aRelease date is 2025-07-03  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net  a"The black kiss by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner" is a horror short story written in the early 20th century. Set on the California coast, it follows an artist haunted by planned, escalating sea-dreams tied to an ancestral legend, drawing him toward a supernatural act of possession.  An artist, Graham Dean, inherits an old San Pedro house once occupied by Morella Godolfo, a figure of sinister local legend said to consort with unearthly sea-dwellers. As Graham’s seascape dreams intensify into vivid visions of green depths and shadowy swimmers, he learns from an occult-wise ally, Doctor Yamada, that such beings can steal human bodies through a kiss, and that Morella herself was once a sea-thing inhabiting a human shell. Lured to a coastal cave, Graham is kissed again and finds his mind trapped in the pale, scaly body of the creature, while his human body is taken by Morella. After swimming with the monsters to a wreck and witnessing their predation on drowning men, he returns to the cave, confronts his stolen human form, and restrains it as Yamada and Graham’s uncle arrive. In a final act of self-sacrifice, Graham ensures the sea-creature in his body cannot escape, dying as Yamada fires and as he himself delivers a fatal bite, breaking the possession and atoning for the black kiss. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937  aShort stories  aHorror tales  aArtists -- Fiction  aCalifornia -- Fiction1 aKuttner, Henry,d1915-19581 aBrundage, Margaret,d1900-19761 aFinlay, Virgil,d1914-1971 0aMichael Leigh 0aProduced from Weird Tales June 1937.4 uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N0619370640uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76435