Monday, 31 March 2014

The Upper Deep - horror short story

You can check out my foray into horror at the Cardiff Undead blog here!

It was inspired by this poem:

The Kraken - Lord Alfred Tennyson

 Below the thunders of the upper deep;
 Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
 His antient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
 The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
 About his shadowy sides: above him swell
 Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
 And far away into the sickly light,
 From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
 Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
 Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
 There hath he lain for ages and will lie
 Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
 Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
 Then once by man and angels to be seen,
 In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.


And this book:


I'm sure you can guess the common theme;

Although there's not actually a kraken in it...





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