In Lovecraft's short story "Call of the Cthulhu" he describes the creature as "...a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet..."

Rokurokubi appears in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger as a monster that can detach it's octopus-like head.

It was featured as a background monster in Power Ranger Zeo minus the octopus-like head.

Very observant,' came the Captain's gurgly alienish voice from out of his octopus-like head with that funny eye channel runnin' all around it.

"It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers ."

In The Call of Cthulhu, Lovecraft describes Cthulhu as "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."

Illithids have a humanoid body with an octopus-like head.

It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.

Thousands of Koas- large arach-noids with octopus-like heads- were already gathered to watch the event, which would end with Koa's official entry into the United Federation of Planets.

With both hands, he gripped the octopus-like head of a slippery Ontailian and choked it with all his strength.