Setting
Cameron's reference to being at war against a fanatical adversary specifies no particular war and the subject is never mentioned again.
The story takes place in a non urban area filled with fog, howling wolves, swamps and uneducated, superstitious country people who live in simple homes. Dr. Cameron lives and does his work in a large house that includes a secret room which Cameron uses as a laboratory. Tom Gregory refers to the house as a "Haunted Castle". A nearby town in which one of the Cameron's intended victims lives is called Ashton.
The clothes, cars, and telephones suggest that the story takes place in the then present of the 1940s.
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