SOURCE: "The Sea Thing" (Unknown, January 1940) by A. E. Van Vogt

DESCRIPTION: "The thing scrambled out of the water and stood for a moment swaying on its human legs, as if intoxicated. Odd how blurred everything was; its mind blackened by mist, it fought to adjust itself to its human body and to the cool, wet feel of the sand under its feet..."

PLOT: The Shark God takes on human form to go onto an island in the South Pacific. There thirty men are engaged in killing sharks. The Shark God has to adjust quickly to the men's suspicion. His eyes are his least human feature, being flat and black like a sharks. His tremendous strength allows him to throw one man out the door of the hut. The Shark God tries to get alone with the men so he can kill them. Eventually they suspect him of murder and lock him up. Escaping he flees to the lagoon where they trap him with dynamite and kill him.

WEREWOLF FACTS: The were-shark is like a very strong human in his land-based form but is a hundred foot shark in its natural form. The creature can change by sheer force of will. It has to conscious hold the shape.

INTERESTING FACTS: A. E. Van Vogt would use this same story set-up or his classic alien creature story "The Vault of the Beast". Van Vogt enjoyed getting inside the invaders head and using that POV to look at his real cast, the humans affected by its presence.  In "The Sea Thing" the invader is not won over or ever accepted.