SOURCES: "The Finding of the Graiken" by William Hope Hodgson (The Red Magazine, February 15, 1913)

DESCRIPTION: "Then, as I gazed anxiously, from a point in the weed a little ahead of the boat there came a sudden quaking ripple that shivered through the weed in a sort of queer tremor. The next instant, like a shot from a gun, a huge mass drove up clear through the tangled weed, hurling it in all directions, and almost capsizing the boat.The creature had driven up rear foremost. It fell back with a mighty splash, and in the same moment its monstrous arms were reached out to the boat. They grasped it, enfolding themselves about it horribly. It was apparently attempting to drag the boat under." ("The Finding of the Graiken" by H. G. Wells)

NOTES: The giant killer squid lives in the Sargasso Sea where seaweed helps trap its victims.

HISTORY: Hodgson was familiar with Wells and Verne's giant cuttlefish but he improves on the bottleneck in which the story takes place, increasing the tension.