VAL LEWTON AT R.K.O.

“The Bagheeta [...] will change at his coming into a beautiful woman and attempt to coerce him into an embrace. If she is successful, if the youth kisses her, his life is forfeited. Changing again into a black leopard, the Bagheeta will tear him limb from limb.”

– From ‘The Bagheeta,' a story by Val Lewton published in Weird Tales, July 1930.