SOURCES:"A Tropical Horror" by William Hope Hodgson( The Grand Magazine, June 1905)

DESCRIPTION: “... Rising above the bulwarks, seen plainly in the bright moonlight, is a vast slobbering mouth a fathom across.  From the huge dripping lips hang great tentacles ... There are no eyes visible; only that fearful slobbering mouth set on the tremendous trunk-like neck ... then those lips open, displaying four huge fangs ... From the mouth of the thing there flashes forth a long, broad blade of glistening white, set with fierce teeth ...” (“A Tropical Horror” by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: This creature is amphibious and lives at great depths in the ocean. It has immense patience and some intelligence. Its strategy is to besiege a ship, forcing the inhabitants to try to escape once their food and water un out. The thing possesses four tentacles around its eye-less head. It will search in crevisses and hiding places with these barbed appendages.

HISTORY: THis squidgie seems to be related to the devilfish though not of any recognizable genus of sea creature. The film Deep Rising uses a similar bottleneck type plot. Hodgson loved them and wrote several.

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