Throwback Thursday – The Kraken Wakes, John Wyndham

I love John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris. The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids, Trouble With Lichen, Chocky. He doesn’t write cosy, cheerful stuff. I’m old enough to remember the (far superior, despite the model-plant-on-a-skateboard effects) 1981 TV version of DoTT – still genuinely menacing. The Kraken Wakes, a marine ecology