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[[caption-width-right:920:''The titular horror''; art by Gary Gianni]]
[[caption-width-right:920:''The titular horror''; art by Gary Gianni]]
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* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The men of the ''Glen Doon'' are trapped on their ship with the monster. Trying to jump overboard or launch a boat would be obvious suicide.
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* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The men of the ''Glen Doon'' are trapped on their ship with the monster. Trying to jump overboard or launch a boat would be obvious suicide.suicide.
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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Thompson]] finally drives off the monster by severing its tongue with a small hatchet.
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* BerserkButton: Thompson is normally a very calm and rational man -- but do ''not'' harm Joky.
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* DeathOfAChild: The loss that most emotionally-affects Thompson is that of [[spoiler:the fourteen-year-old youngest apprentic seasman, "Joky"]].
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* DeathOfAChild: The loss that most emotionally-affects Thompson is that of [[spoiler:the fourteen-year-old youngest apprentic seasman, apprentice seaman, "Joky"]].
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Thompson]] loses all fear and cuts off the monster's tongue-tentacle when it kills [[spoiler:Joky]]. [[Justified JustifiedTrope]], as the victim had already been established as his good friendmme
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Thompson]] loses all fear and cuts off the monster's tongue-tentacle when it kills [[spoiler:Joky]]. [[Justified JustifiedTrope]], [[JustifiedTrope Justified ]], as the victim had already been established as his good friendmmefriend.
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* InsistentTerminology: Thompson keeps calling the monster a "sea serpent," even though it looks only vaguely like one. Then again, he's a sailor, not a marine biologist.
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* BerserkButton: Thompson is normally a very calm and rational man -- but do ''not'' harm Joky.
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* PresentTense: Thompson tells the tale in this manner, thus ramping up both immediacy and tension, as we don't know if he will survive. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that the epilogue (written from two other characters' perspective in past tense) shows us that Thompson [[wrote his narrative in present tense despite the fact that it had already happened to him]].
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* PresentTense: Thompson tells the tale in this manner, thus ramping up both immediacy and tension, as we don't know if he will survive. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that the epilogue (written from two other characters' perspective in past tense) shows us that Thompson [[wrote [[spoiler:''wrote'' his narrative in present tense despite the fact that it had already happened to him]].
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* PresentTense: Thompson tells the tale in this manner, thus ramping up both immediacy and tension, as we don't know if he will survive. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that the epilogue (written from two other characters' perspective in past tense) shows us that Thompson [[''wrote'' his narrative in present tense despite the fact that it had already happened to him]].
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* PresentTense: Thompson tells the tale in this manner, thus ramping up both immediacy and tension, as we don't know if he will survive. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that the epilogue (written from two other characters' perspective in past tense) shows us that Thompson [[''wrote'' [[wrote his narrative in present tense despite the fact that it had already happened to him]].
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* TheCabinBoy: "Joky" is technically an apprentice seaman rather than a cabin boy, but as the youngest person aboard the ''Glen Doon'' (at age 14) he fills that character role among her crew.
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* FirstPersonPerspective: All but the epilogue is told from Thompson's first-person POV. The epilogue is told from the perspective of William Norton and Tom Briggs, Master and First Mate respectively of the steamship ''Hispaniola''.
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Thompson]] loses all fear and cuts off the monster's tongue-tentacle when it kills [[spoiler:Joky]]. JustifiedTrope, [[Justified JustifiedTrope]], as the victim had already been identified established as his good friend.friendmme
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* PresentTense: Thompson tells the tale in this manner, thus ramping up both immediacy and tension, as we don't know if he will survive. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], in that the epilogue (written from two other characters' perspective in past tense) shows us that Thompson [[''wrote'' his narrative in present tense despite the fact that it had already happened to him]].
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* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:Thompson]] finally drives off the monster by severing its tongue with a small hatchet.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: The axe [[spoiler:Thompson]] uses to maim the monster is a hatchet from a carpenter's toolchest. This was not designed as a weapon, but rather a tool; it serves well enough, though.
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* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The giant, mollusk-like SeaMonster.
* BarrierBustingBlow: The climax is precipitated when the monster smashes its bladed tongue through the after-port of the steel wheelhouse in which Thompson and Joky are sheltering.
* DeathOfAChild: The loss that most emotionally-affects Thompson is that of [[spoiler:the fourteen-year-old youngest apprentic seasman, "Joky"]].
* BarrierBustingBlow: The climax is precipitated when the monster smashes its bladed tongue through the after-port of the steel wheelhouse in which Thompson and Joky are sheltering.
* DeathOfAChild: The loss that most emotionally-affects Thompson is that of [[spoiler:the fourteen-year-old youngest apprentic seasman, "Joky"]].
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* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Thompson]] loses all fear and cuts off the monster's tongue-tentacle when it kills [[spoiler:Joky]]. JustifiedTrope, as the victim had already been identified as his good friend.
* MultipurposeTongue: The monster's tongue serves it as tentacle, claw and probe.
* OverlyLongTongue: The creature has a muscular bladed tongue-tentacle that must be at ''least'' 10 feet long.
* MultipurposeTongue: The monster's tongue serves it as tentacle, claw and probe.
* OverlyLongTongue: The creature has a muscular bladed tongue-tentacle that must be at ''least'' 10 feet long.
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* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler:Thompson]] finally drives off the monster by severing its tongue-tentacle.
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* SeaMonster: The creature which menaces the men of the ''Glen Doon''.
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* TentacledTerror: The monster is vaguely mollusk-like, but of some unknown class: it has an immense vaguely slug-like body with a long neck and eyeless head, sporting a ''huge'' mouth (big enough to swallow a man whole) equipped with a long and very rapid bladed tongue-tentacle.
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* TentacledTerror: The monster is vaguely mollusk-like, but of some unknown class: it is propelled by a long flat tail, has an immense vaguely slug-like body with a long neck and eyeless ending in its head, sporting "little pig-eyes," a ''huge'' mouth (big enough to swallow a man whole) equipped with a long and very rapid bladed tongue-tentacle.
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* TheSavageSouth: As the title suggests, the tale takes place in tropical waters.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Thompson]].
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Thompson]].
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* TentacledTerror: The monster is vaguely mollusk-like, but of some unknown class: it has an immense vaguely slug-like body with a long neck and eyeless head, sporting a ''huge'' mouth (big enough to swallow a man whole) equipped with a long and very rapid bladed tongue-tentacle.tongue-tentacle.
* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The men of the ''Glen Doon'' are trapped on their ship with the monster. Trying to jump overboard or launch a boat would be obvious suicide.
* TrappedWithMonsterPlot: The men of the ''Glen Doon'' are trapped on their ship with the monster. Trying to jump overboard or launch a boat would be obvious suicide.
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* EatenAlive: The fate of most of the officers and men.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Since Thompson doesn't see a lot of the deaths, he mostly describes what they ''sound'' like.
* SurvivalHorror: The story is about how the men of the ''Glen Doon'' struggle to stay alive.
* TentacledTerror: The monster is vaguely mollusk-like, but of some unknown class: it has an immense vaguely slug-like body with a long neck and eyeless head, sporting a ''huge'' mouth (big enough to swallow a man whole) equipped with a long and very rapid bladed tongue-tentacle.
* EatenAlive: The fate of most of the officers and men.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Since Thompson doesn't see a lot of the deaths, he mostly describes what they ''sound'' like.
* SurvivalHorror: The story is about how the men of the ''Glen Doon'' struggle to stay alive.
* TentacledTerror: The monster is vaguely mollusk-like, but of some unknown class: it has an immense vaguely slug-like body with a long neck and eyeless head, sporting a ''huge'' mouth (big enough to swallow a man whole) equipped with a long and very rapid bladed tongue-tentacle.
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Published by Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson in 1905, this short story tells the tale of Thompson, the Second Mate of the four-masted barque ''Glen Doon'' -- a ship which has the misfortune to be attacked by a sea monster.
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