John Wyndham's novels were never cosy. At best, they were dark tales of speculative fiction examining how life continues to exist - in all its mundane desperate ways - against monstrous forces attempting to destroy it. https://flashbak.com/sex-and-death-from-outer-space-the-village-of-the-damned-1960-440240/
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I just read "The Kraken Wakes" a month or so ago, it was quite good.