The Vodi

Bereft of his mother, struck down by tuberculosis, betrayed by his sweetheart, Dick Corvey has no will to live.

In his mind he regresses to an unhealthy boyhood fantasy, originally suggested by a dominating friend, about the Vodi and their leader Nelly, a sort of fat and malignant Hecate. As he lies in the sanatorium the personality of one of his nurses can do more for him than drugs.