Death of the Kraken by David H. Keller

About this episode

The episode discusses 'Death of the Kraken', a horror story by David H. Keller published in Weird Tales Magazine.

"Death of the Kraken" by American author David H. Keller, first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in March 1942. The magazine described the tale as follows: “In the Sargasso Sea Are Many Monsters . . . Human Ones!” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• monsters
• Sargasso Sea
• horror fiction
• classic literature
• human nature

Keywords

• Kraken
• David H. Keller
• Weird Tales
• horror
• monsters
• Sargasso Sea
• fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Weird Tales Magazine

Books & works: Death of the Kraken

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