nearly midnight
_ -LRB- To be continued . -RRB- _ When the Moon Turned Green _ By Hal K. Wells _ -LSB- Illustration : _ The monster whirled to confront Dixon . _ -RSB- -LSB- Sidenote : Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men -- and above , in the sky , shines a weird green moon . -RSB- It was nearly midnight when Bruce Dixon finished his labors and wearily rose from before the work-bench of his lonely mountain laboratory , located in an abandoned mine working in Southern Arizona . He looked like some weirdly garbed monk of the Middle Ages as he stretched his tall , lithe figure . His head was completely swathed in a hood of lead-cloth , broken only by twin eyeholes of green glass . The hood merged into a long-sleeved tunic of the same fabric , while lead-cloth gauntlets covered his hands .