Charles Winslow Curtis, M.D., goes to work at Dunhill Sanitarium in Santiago, CA in 1949. There he is introduced to patient Uriah Horby, a seemingly normal and un-insane fellow - except that he fears the moonlight, and something that comes with it. He's been studying the usual sources and trying various rituals to banish or at least keep at bay something that he believes comes with the moon. Being a dip, Doc Curtis helps him gather materials from various libraries.
Unfortunately, the thing he needs most turns out to be illegible and cannot be copied. Even more unfortunately, Horby isn't so nuts, and on a particularly moonlit night, something black and fishy rises from the nearby marsh and carries him off.
An entertaining bit of pulp spookery. Nothing more.
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