The Kraken Wakes

An “ingenious, horrifying” ( The Guardian ) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes . . . . Feels all too familiar in today’s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists.” —Alex