The Indigestible Triton, published in 1940 in Unknown

“The Indigestible Triton”
Published under the pen name Rene Lafayette


Publication date: April 1940

Original publication: Unknown

Genre: Fantasy

Story description: Bill Grayson, on a brief fishing trip, hooks a formidable fish that turns out to be Trigon, the Triton, great-grandson to Neptune, ruler of the sea. Triton enters Bill’s body, shares a sanitarium cell with him and escapes into the sea with Bill who is now able to breathe under water and communicate with the fish. At Neptune’s palace, Bill threatens to use his hypnotic powers, and is permitted to go ashore with a wealth of treasure.