Lusca

The latest episode of BBC’s Death in Paradise featured the legend of the Lusca. I remembered that I drew this creature for one of the Monster Hunters Unlimited series that I illustrated and co-created for PSS (a division of Penguin)

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"There Leviathan,
Hugest of living creatures, on the deep
Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,
And seems a moving land; and at his gills
Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea...."
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"
🎨 Gustave Doré

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"There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms 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."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Kraken"
🎨 John Gibson

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From Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures

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