A short story. "'Brenner's Boy,' published separately in England (1932) and in August Derleth's anthology The Sleeping and the Dead (1947), returns us to the Hampshire coast, where a childless couple - the man, again, a retired seaman - find themselves playing parents to a weird visitor: the repulsive, androgynous son of the man's former commander. Metcalfe's narrative uses dreams, snapshots, and a faultily remembered conversation to disquieting effect." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural