SOURCE: "A Visit to the Moon" (Pearson's Magazine, January 1900) by George Griffith

DESCRIPTION: "...Then suddenly there was a violent commotion in the water a few yards away; and the two creatures rose to the surface of the water, one with a wriggling eel-like fish between its jaws. They both groped their way towards the edge, and had just reached it and were pulling themselves out when a hideous shape rose out of the water behind them. It was like the head of an octopus joined to the body of a boa-constrictor, but head and neck were both of the same ghastly, livid grey as the other two bodies. It was evidently blind, too, for it took no notice of the brilliant glare of the searchlight. Still it moved rapidly towards the two scrambling forms, its long white feelers trembling out in all directions. Then one of them touched the smaller of the two creatures. Instantly the rest shot out and closed round it, and with scarcely a struggle it was dragged beneath the water and vanished. " ("A Visit to the Moon" by George Griffith)

NOTES: In the deepest and darkest holes on the Moon, creatures still live. Amongst the predators are the Octopus Snakes. They feed on creatures such as the degenerate Lunarians.

HISTORY: The visitors to the Moon, Redgrave and Zaidie, watch the Octopus Snake capture its prey but do not interfere. The Circle of Life, I suppose.