The Inky Tentacle is named in honour of The Kraken itself and is awarded to the year's finest cover art, as selected by a panel of experts from a variety of visual arts backgrounds. The 2012 judges are Lauren O'Farrell, Gary Northfield and Jared Shurin.
The winning artist or designer receives a £250 prize, a hand-crafted Tentacle trophy and an appropriately inky bottle of The Kraken's finest dark rum.
This prize debuted in 2011 and was won by Glen Duncan's The Last Werewolf, designed by Peter Mendelsund.
