The Bloch, Robert 1917-1994 creator Kuttner, Henry 1915-1958 Brundage, Margaret 1900-1976 Finlay, Virgil 1914-1971 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Originally published: Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 Short stories Horror tales Artists -- Fiction California -- Fiction PS Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76435 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N06193706 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76435 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134753.0 76435