Dark Waters (Once Upon a Time) is to take Snow's heart. The Land of Untold Stories is revealed to be the Mysterious Island from the book as the same name. The "Nautilus" is based on the submarine from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Captain Nemo based on the protagonist from Jules Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Hook refers to the giant squid that attacks him as a kraken. The kraken is a legendary sea monster of giant size that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. The episode posted its lowest numbers so far in the series, as
The Sea-Wolf The Sea-Wolf The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous "The Call of the Wild". Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of