02825cam a22004453u 4500 76435 UtSlPG 20260610134753.0 m cr n 260607r20251937utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994 The black kiss Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Michael Leigh Produced from Weird Tales June 1937. Also published with the title: Sea kissed. Release date is 2025-07-03 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) Originally published: Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 Short stories Horror tales Artists -- Fiction California -- Fiction Kuttner, Henry, 1915-1958 Brundage, Margaret, 1900-1976 Finlay, Virgil, 1914-1971 Michael Leigh Produced from Weird Tales June 1937. https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76435 117160 117160