Cetus Insolitus: Sea Serpents, Giant Cephalopods, and other Marine Monsters in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy

Cetus Insolitus is an anthology of twenty-six classic sea monster stories, from giant squid and invisible octopuses to sea serpents and strange deadly fish. The stories range from the humorous to the darkly apocalyptic. Well-known stories by authors like H. G. Wells and William Hope Hodgson are compiled with pieces that have rarely been seen since their first publication in the 1800s or early 1900s.

Contents

1. The Tail of the Big Sea-Serpent (1848, William H. G. Kingston)
2. Jim Newman’s Yarn (1886, John C. Hutcheson)
3. A Real Sea-Serpent (1889, Anonymous)
4. A Matter of Fact (1892, Rudyard Kipling)
5. The Rival Beauties (1894, W. W. Jacobs)
6. The Sea Raiders (1896, H. G. Wells)
7. In the Abyss (1896, H. G. Wells)
8. The Last Stand of the Decapods (1901, Frank T. Bullen)
9. The Voyage of the “Mary Simpson” (1902, Arthur Colton)
10. Out of the Deep (1904, Owen Oliver)
11. The Sea Serpent Syndicate (1905, Everard Jack Appleton)
12. A Tropical Horror (1905, William Hope Hodgson)
13. From the Tideless Sea (1906, William Hope Hodgson)
14. The Terror of the Sea Caves (1907, Charles G. D. Roberts)
15. The Mystery of the Derelict (1907, William Hope Hodgson)
16. Winkler Ashore: The Sea-Serpent (1907, Gouverneur Morris)
17. Crew Saved by Sea Serpent (1910, Anonymous)
18. The Thing in the Weeds (1912, William Hope Hodgson)
19. The Finding of the Graiken (1913, William Hope Hodgson)
20. From the Darkness and the Depths (1913, Morgan Robertson)
21. The Stone Ship (1914, William Hope Hodgson)
22. De Profundis (1917, H. de Vere Stacpoole)
23. Demons of the Sea (posthumous, William Hope Hodgson)
24. The Habitants of Middle Islet (posthumous, William Hope Hodgson)
25. The Finless Death (1921, Robert Ernest Vernède)
26. The Octopus Cycle (1928, I. Lester and F. Pratt)