All other vampires are jealous of the Vampire Squid's beautiful, silky cloak.

Image: NOAA Chiroteuthis is MOSTLY tentacles. Glad to see they've got their priorities in order!

Histioteuthis heteropsis You've seen werewolves versus vampires. You've marvelled at Alien versus Predator. You've wondered ...

It was a close thing, but this jelly-legs just barely escaped from the enormous snipper of a giant snip-snip.

Big, voluminous sleeves ... the trend that keeps on giving. And billowing. After all, who doesn't want to look like a rakish buccanee...

Image: Richard Ling A bunch of squid? A BUNCH? That, dear reader, is the problem . Image: Richard Ling A murder of crows. A parl...

Cirrothauma murrayi Octopuses are famous for having eyes remarkably similar to those of humans but without the blind spot. The Blind ...

Nor any hand to shake.

Amphitretus pelagicus We are all in the abyss. But some of us are looking at the bioluminescent anglerfish.

Image: Klaus Stiefel Sepioloidea lineolata Striped Pyjama Squid are always ready for bed!

Image: Rickard Zerpe Pretty, titchy, deadly. The Blue-ringed Octopous is like an elegant chocolate laced with cyanide, an ornate thimbl...

Image: Saspotato The teeniest, tiniest tentacles of them all!

Image: Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai The Dumbo Octopus has been strutting around like he owns the place for far too long. It...

Image: q phia Metasepia pfefferi It's time to put your glad rags on! The ones with the inconveniently voluminous sleeves. The ones ...

Check out this beautiful octopus! Is that a devil costume?

Image: NOAA OKEANOS Explorer Program Squid just love to party! Even in the most desperate of circumstances...

Image: NOAA/MBARI An octopus with two different kinds of invisibility cloak!

Wow! What a beauty!

Says it's for their own protection.

In the darkness of the deep A vampire wakes from sleep And opens his vampire cape His vampire tentacles Hold vampire spectacles T...