"The Sea Raiders" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896 in The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement. It was included in The Plattner Story and Others, a collection of short stories by Wells published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was included in The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911. The story describes a brief period when a previously unknown sort of giant squid, which attacks humans, is encountered on the coast of Devon, England. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)