The Damp Man Trilogy

Allison V. Harding's grotesque Damp Man appears in three stories: "The Damp Man" (1947), "The Damp Man Returns" (1947), and "The Damp Man Again" (1949). The stories follow journalist George Pelgrim and swimmer Linda Mallory as they encounter a monstrous figure who seems to have cultivated a bizarre obsession with the latter.
Allison V. Harding, a pseudonym for the mysterious figure, Jean Milligan, contributed several stories to Weird Tales throughout the 1940s, and early 50s.