In April of 1947, a man makes a connection between a tattooed Japanese man and a monster that washed up in Brighton two centuries earlier.
I should never have taken the trouble to pocket his Account of a Strange Monster Captured Near Brighthelmstone in the County of Sussex on August 6th in the Year of Our Lord 1745.

Variants

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  1. “The Monster” by Gerald Kersh, in The Saturday Evening Post, 21 February 1948.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Gerald Kersh