Squid

In myths and legends squids are portrayed as fearsome sea-monsters, lurking in the watery deeps and waiting to devour humans. Even as-modern science has tried to turn those monsters of the deep into unremarkable calamari, squids continue to dominate the nightmares of the Western imagination. Taking inspiration from early weird-fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, modern writers such as Jeff VanderMeer depict squids as the absolute Other of human civilization, whereas non-Western poets such as Da...