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Octopus #3
Octopus 3
WARNING: THIS TITLE CONTAINS MATERIAL OF AN ADULT NATURE
With sacrifices made and plans seen through, the time has come. There is a bubbling from the bottom of the ocean. The waves are getting more violent. Storms beat down upon the unworthy earth. The Great Old One opens his eyes.
We all go mad...
With sacrifices made and plans seen through, the time has come. There is a bubbling from the bottom of the ocean. The waves are getting more violent. Storms beat down upon the unworthy earth. The Great Old One opens his eyes.
We all go mad...
- GenresHorrorLovecraftian
74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 2, 2021
33 people are currently reading
57 people want to read
About the author
Matt Shaw
533 books2,213 followersBiography
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
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December 24, 2020
A spectacular finale full of crazed gore and psychopathic humans
HE IS AWAKE and we all go mad
Bravo Mr Shaw 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
HE IS AWAKE and we all go mad
Bravo Mr Shaw 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
January 11, 2021
Crazy
People all over started going crazy. People violently having sex and killing each other. And a sacrifice. Story was left open for possible 4 story and maybe conclusion.
People all over started going crazy. People violently having sex and killing each other. And a sacrifice. Story was left open for possible 4 story and maybe conclusion.
June 1, 2022
I had to find out how Shaw would end an extremely graphicly violent and pornographic trilogy about the rebirth of Cthulhu in the modern age. He does it with lots of blood and juices and gore and body parts flying around. Mass spontaneous octopus births, mass psychotic breakdowns, mass orgies and mass murders. Random people experience random crazy deaths with random shit and blood flying around. Literally, I might add. There are a few cringe-inducing scenes, and one couple on a boat who serve as the central characters around which the story of insanity unfolds.
There is no real ending. He is born. The End.
There is no real ending. He is born. The End.
January 20, 2021
This didn’t really feel like story. It was just random violent and sexually charged moments taking place at the end of the world, and a bunch octopuses. One scene involving an infant in the middle of the book was exceptionally cringe worthy. Now that I’m done with book three, I can move on to something else.
April 16, 2023
A Sad Silly Stillbirth
So I gave this whole series a fair shake. I wanted it to get better, but this final entry just ran an entire promising concept into the sleazy, juvenile mud I had always worried would drag it down. I’m no prude. The concepts presented of “splatter shock”, for lack of a better term, are solid ideas. Sadly they are written as if by a 12-year-old boy trying to impress his peers with “grown-up” “dirty” words. There are much more vivid ways to describe genitals, mutilation, monstrous births, insanity, et al than used in this series. The ridiculous overuse of the same slang terms just ends up being a repetitive curse that drowns a promising ploy in the most elementary vocabulary possible. Someone should invest in an anatomy book and a thesaurus.
So I gave this whole series a fair shake. I wanted it to get better, but this final entry just ran an entire promising concept into the sleazy, juvenile mud I had always worried would drag it down. I’m no prude. The concepts presented of “splatter shock”, for lack of a better term, are solid ideas. Sadly they are written as if by a 12-year-old boy trying to impress his peers with “grown-up” “dirty” words. There are much more vivid ways to describe genitals, mutilation, monstrous births, insanity, et al than used in this series. The ridiculous overuse of the same slang terms just ends up being a repetitive curse that drowns a promising ploy in the most elementary vocabulary possible. Someone should invest in an anatomy book and a thesaurus.
April 30, 2021
HE was awake...
This was the big bang finale I was hoping for. I'm not even a huge Cthulhu fan. Don't get me wrong, the topic is cool and all, but this version with so much blood, gore, and violence made me like Cthulhu much more.
Yes, this one was a totally different kind of story than the first two, but it's well worth reading those to get to this one.
This was the big bang finale I was hoping for. I'm not even a huge Cthulhu fan. Don't get me wrong, the topic is cool and all, but this version with so much blood, gore, and violence made me like Cthulhu much more.
Yes, this one was a totally different kind of story than the first two, but it's well worth reading those to get to this one.
January 29, 2021
Ahhhh! The best one of all!! I love this series so gory, gross and disgusting!!! Matt is One of the best in this category! Please make a part 4!
July 3, 2022
Aaaach! Jak się moje czarne serducho stęskniło za takim horrorem ekstremalnym. Jak bardzo tęskniłam za takimi pokręconymi, chorymi rzeczami! Zanim jednak przejdę dalej, ostrzegam, to nie jest rzecz dla osób wrażliwych! Nieprzygotowany czytelnik naprawdę może się sparzyć.
"Jedną ręką ścisnęła główkę, drugą drobne ramiona, po czym rozerwała niemowlę na dwie części zupełnie jakby było złożone z klocków..."
Po przeczytaniu drugiej części byłam bardzo ciekawa, jak się sytuacja rozwinie? Więc długo nie czekałam, tylko zabrałam się za trzecią część. I ta, choć krótka - naprawdę odmóżdża! Matt pokazał, że potrafi krótko, dosadnie, ale za to jak intensywnie poprowadzić fabułę, tak że czacha dymi.
Tutaj fabuła idzie w stronę animal horroru, nie tylko Max i Helena będą mieli "słodkie" dzieciątko, ale rozgrywa się to na skalę globu. Cały świat dopadnie szaleństwo i totalny chaos. Ludzie tracą resztki moralności, budzą się w nich mordercze instynkty i dziwne pożądanie. Poczujecie się niczym zamknięci w metalowej klatce bez możliwości ucieczki.
Jest brutalnie, krwawo, ohydnie i obrzydliwie lepko. Nie brakuje tu surowych opisów seksu czy autokanibalizmu. To niesamowita wizja tego, do czego może doprowadzić blasfemiczny rytuał z wykorzystaniem Mitów Cthulhu.
Wyśmienicie się przy tym bawiłam! Zapewniła mi rozrywkę jakiej oczekiwałam. Dla fanów horroru ekstremalnego rzecz idealna.
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"Jedną ręką ścisnęła główkę, drugą drobne ramiona, po czym rozerwała niemowlę na dwie części zupełnie jakby było złożone z klocków..."
Po przeczytaniu drugiej części byłam bardzo ciekawa, jak się sytuacja rozwinie? Więc długo nie czekałam, tylko zabrałam się za trzecią część. I ta, choć krótka - naprawdę odmóżdża! Matt pokazał, że potrafi krótko, dosadnie, ale za to jak intensywnie poprowadzić fabułę, tak że czacha dymi.
Tutaj fabuła idzie w stronę animal horroru, nie tylko Max i Helena będą mieli "słodkie" dzieciątko, ale rozgrywa się to na skalę globu. Cały świat dopadnie szaleństwo i totalny chaos. Ludzie tracą resztki moralności, budzą się w nich mordercze instynkty i dziwne pożądanie. Poczujecie się niczym zamknięci w metalowej klatce bez możliwości ucieczki.
Jest brutalnie, krwawo, ohydnie i obrzydliwie lepko. Nie brakuje tu surowych opisów seksu czy autokanibalizmu. To niesamowita wizja tego, do czego może doprowadzić blasfemiczny rytuał z wykorzystaniem Mitów Cthulhu.
Wyśmienicie się przy tym bawiłam! Zapewniła mi rozrywkę jakiej oczekiwałam. Dla fanów horroru ekstremalnego rzecz idealna.
Książka objęta patronatem Katoooli 🐙
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August 31, 2023Ich gebe dem gesamten Dreier-Oktopus mal keine Sternewertung, weil ich, glaube ich, echt nicht die Zielgruppe war, und nehme es lieber ein wenig handwerklich auseinander.
Buch 1 so: Ok, klingt lustig bis bäh, ich hab nix gegen Horror oder komische Kulte oder Lovecraft als Inspo, also let‘s go. Ein winziges, niedliches Spannungsböglein ist sogar auch am Start! Ende dann eher so örks aber absehbar, dennoch irgendwie Lust herauszufinden, wie es weitergeht, einfach damit die Zeit auch nicht total verschwendet war. Buch 2 dümpelt dann so in einer Art (wortwörtlich) ekligen Belanglosigkeit umher, ein Mü unterhaltsam vielleicht noch durch die Psychoschiene, ansonsten passiert eigentlich kaum was. An dieser Stelle spätestens die innere Frage, warum das eigentlich nicht einfach EIN Buch statt ner Trilogie mit jeweils knapp 100 Seiten sein kann. Buch 3… ey… nein. Einfach nein. Einfach nur eine stumpfe Aneinanderreihung von absichtlich widerlichen Szenen, und Dude, das mit den Kindern hätte echt nicht sein müssen, ab da hab ich dann den letzten Rest Hirn ausgeschaltet. Ende: Oktopus3000. Oktopus für alle! Wer hat noch nicht, wer will noch mal? Also ich ganz sicher nicht, auch kein weiteres Buch vom Autor, sondern 10 süße Kätzchenvideos als brain cleanse und danach ein wirklich gutes Buch. Gerne auch wieder vernünftiger Horror, aber gerne auch ohne Meeresgetier erstmal.
Buch 1 so: Ok, klingt lustig bis bäh, ich hab nix gegen Horror oder komische Kulte oder Lovecraft als Inspo, also let‘s go. Ein winziges, niedliches Spannungsböglein ist sogar auch am Start! Ende dann eher so örks aber absehbar, dennoch irgendwie Lust herauszufinden, wie es weitergeht, einfach damit die Zeit auch nicht total verschwendet war. Buch 2 dümpelt dann so in einer Art (wortwörtlich) ekligen Belanglosigkeit umher, ein Mü unterhaltsam vielleicht noch durch die Psychoschiene, ansonsten passiert eigentlich kaum was. An dieser Stelle spätestens die innere Frage, warum das eigentlich nicht einfach EIN Buch statt ner Trilogie mit jeweils knapp 100 Seiten sein kann. Buch 3… ey… nein. Einfach nein. Einfach nur eine stumpfe Aneinanderreihung von absichtlich widerlichen Szenen, und Dude, das mit den Kindern hätte echt nicht sein müssen, ab da hab ich dann den letzten Rest Hirn ausgeschaltet. Ende: Oktopus3000. Oktopus für alle! Wer hat noch nicht, wer will noch mal? Also ich ganz sicher nicht, auch kein weiteres Buch vom Autor, sondern 10 süße Kätzchenvideos als brain cleanse und danach ein wirklich gutes Buch. Gerne auch wieder vernünftiger Horror, aber gerne auch ohne Meeresgetier erstmal.
April 25, 2023
Octopus 3: An Extreme Horror
Did this book really evolve from a werewolves novel or am I confused?! Not a bad read better than the second, but not as good as the first!
It’s finished, I’m not aware of another book but in my opinion it’s been left so there could be one. Maybe the werewolves come back unhurt by the octopus and save the day only for them to rule the world?! How mad does that all sound?!
Violence, sex, humour and out there scenarios , what else does one expect from Matt Shaw !?!
Did this book really evolve from a werewolves novel or am I confused?! Not a bad read better than the second, but not as good as the first!
It’s finished, I’m not aware of another book but in my opinion it’s been left so there could be one. Maybe the werewolves come back unhurt by the octopus and save the day only for them to rule the world?! How mad does that all sound?!
Violence, sex, humour and out there scenarios , what else does one expect from Matt Shaw !?!
January 2, 2021
Having read the other two I had to finish! Very disturbing tale of insanity brought on by the rise of Him. I honestly had to skip through a few very disturbing scenes but I did enjoy the story itself. Matt has a very vivid imagination and the fact that it makes the reader uncomfortable but still compels one to continue reading says so much.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 19, 2023
4.5 ⭐
That was wild and wow. I just.... yeah.
That was wild and wow. I just.... yeah.
December 22, 2024
A disappointing climax…
In the third and final instalment of this series the Great Old One is awakening, driving all the world to madness in his wake.
All across the entire globe, anyone who is even remotely pregnant immediately starts giving birth to octopi - whilst everyone else all around them goes absolutely stark, raving mad, bonkers in fact, driven to total insanity, sending them all into extreme violent rages that cannot be controlled.
This book had a lot of very nasty scenes, and is almost virtually non-stop violence and mayhem right from the start, but reading this, I couldn’t help but feel like Matt Shaw had kind of just given up on this series by this point and just decided to go all out without any clear direction in mind, as this final chapter adds very little to the overall story that hasn’t already been told.
I mean, it’s classic Shaw - with the kind of extremely violent scenes that more sensitive readers will most definitely find repugnant, and that certainly straddles the border of bad taste, before embracing it fully, and then finally bending it over and raping it brutally from behind - but there were numerous errors throughout, and it just felt like Matt simply wrote this almost as a cash-in, just to finish everything all off.
Let’s make no bones about it, there’s no subtlety here - and with a much stronger storyline I’d have no problem with that - it’s just that here, it all seems a bit pointless.
But then maybe THAT’S the point.
A bit of a disappointing end to what, until now, has been an enjoyable trilogy.
In the third and final instalment of this series the Great Old One is awakening, driving all the world to madness in his wake.
All across the entire globe, anyone who is even remotely pregnant immediately starts giving birth to octopi - whilst everyone else all around them goes absolutely stark, raving mad, bonkers in fact, driven to total insanity, sending them all into extreme violent rages that cannot be controlled.
This book had a lot of very nasty scenes, and is almost virtually non-stop violence and mayhem right from the start, but reading this, I couldn’t help but feel like Matt Shaw had kind of just given up on this series by this point and just decided to go all out without any clear direction in mind, as this final chapter adds very little to the overall story that hasn’t already been told.
I mean, it’s classic Shaw - with the kind of extremely violent scenes that more sensitive readers will most definitely find repugnant, and that certainly straddles the border of bad taste, before embracing it fully, and then finally bending it over and raping it brutally from behind - but there were numerous errors throughout, and it just felt like Matt simply wrote this almost as a cash-in, just to finish everything all off.
Let’s make no bones about it, there’s no subtlety here - and with a much stronger storyline I’d have no problem with that - it’s just that here, it all seems a bit pointless.
But then maybe THAT’S the point.
A bit of a disappointing end to what, until now, has been an enjoyable trilogy.
August 15, 2023
I read "KIDS" but it's not here.
I'll edit once the book has been added here.
I'll edit once the book has been added here.
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