The Black Tentacle is a special achievement award, handed out at the discretion of Anne Perry and Jared Shurin, editors of Pornokitsch.
It goes to a work or body of work that does not otherwise fit The Kitschies' criteria. The winner receives a hand-crafted and embroidered tentacle and a bottle of The Kraken's black spiced rum.
Previous winners include comic book publisher SelfMadeHero (2011) and Donald Westlake's posthumous novel Memory, from Hard Case Crime (2010).
