SquidThis book traces the many ways humans have thought about and pictured squids. In myths and legends, squids are portrayed as fearsome sea monsters, lurking in the watery deeps 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