Dagon (short story)
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Dagon Dagon
Genre: Lovecraft horror
By Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Original language: English
Date of writing: 1917
Date of first publication: November 1919
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"Dagon" (English Dagon) is a fantastic short story by Lovecraft, written in 1917.
It refers to the author's early work.
Plot[edit / edit wiki text]
The whole story is a suicide note from the person who saw Dagon.
Sailing in the rarely visited corners of the Pacific Ocean, his ship is captured by the Germans.
However, less than 5 days later, the narrator manages to escape in a small boat with enough food and water.
For several days he sails without encountering either ships or land.
One night he has a nightmare, and when he wakes up, he finds himself drowning in a viscous, black swamp, quite far from his boat.
Everything is littered with the bones of decomposed fish, and there is a terrible stench in the air.
Apparently, this is an island formed when a section of the seabed was raised.
After three days, the swamp dries up, and he goes to an unknown goal.
In the distance, you can see a fairly high hill.
The narrator goes to him.
There is a gorge behind the hill, he goes down into it and sees there a strange pillar with an ancient, mysterious carving.
And suddenly, Dagon appears from the water column and wraps his arms around the pole.
After that, the main character, not remembering himself, sails off the island in a boat, and being in a state of temporary insanity, sings terrible and incomprehensible chants.
In the morning, an American ship finds him and takes him to San Francisco, where the main character regains consciousness.
At the end of the story, the man is thrown out of the window, unable to bear the visions of Dagon and the terrible withdrawal from morphine, on which he became dependent, trying to forget that island and the Ancient God.
See also[edit / edit wiki text]
Dagon (film)
The works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
1897—1908
The Noble Spy* (1897) · The Secret Cave (1898) · The Secret of the Cemetery (1898) · The Little Glass Bottle (1899) · The Haunted House* (1902) · The Secret of the Grave* (1902) · John, the Detective* (1902) · The Mysterious Ship (1902) · The Beast in the Cave (1905) · The Picture* (1907) · The Alchemist (1905)
1910s
The tomb (1917) · Dagon (1917) · the Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) · Sweetheart Ermengarde (1917) · Polaris (1918) · the Mystery of Mardon Grange* (1918) · Beyond the wall of sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old bugs (1919) · the Reincarnation of Juan Romero (1919) · the White ship (1919) · Avenging Rock over Sarnata (1919) · the testimony of Randolph Carter (1919)
1920s
The Terrible Old Man (1920) · The Tree (1920) · The Cats of Ultar (1920) · The Temple (1920) · Some Facts about the late Arthur Jermyn and his Family (1920) · The Street (1920) · Life and Death* (1920) · Selefais (1920) · From Outside (1920) · Nyarlathotep (1920) · The Picture in the House (1920) · Oblivion (1921) · The Nameless City (1921) · The Search for Iranon (1921) · The Swamp of the Moon (1921) · The Outcast (1921) · Other Gods (1921 · * Music by Erich Zann (1921 · * Herbert West The Reanimator (1922 · * Hypnos (1922) · What the Moon Brings (1922) · Azathoth (1922) · The Dog (1922) · Lurking Horror (1922) · Rats in the Walls (1923) · Unnamed (1923) · Festival (1923) · Deaf, Dumb and Blind (1924) · Abandoned House (1924) · The Horror at Red Hook (1925) · He (1925) · In the Crypt (1925) · The Descendant (1926) · Cold Air (1926) · The Model for Pickman (1926) · The Silver Key (1926)
· The Mysterious House on the Misty Cliff (1926) · The Call of Cthulhu (1926) · The Somnambulistic Search for the Unknown Kadath (1927) · The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) · Color from Other Worlds (1927) · A Very Old People (1927) · The Story of the Necronomicon (1927) · The Ibid (1928) · The Dunwich Horror (1928)
1930s
The Whisperer in the Dark (1930 · * The Ridges of Madness (1931) · The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931) · Dreams in the Witch's House (1932) · The Creature on the Threshold (1933) · The Servant of Evil (1933) · The Book (1933) · Beyond Time (1935)
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Authors Howard Phillips Lovecraft * August Derleth · Frank Long · Robert Howard · Robert Bloch
Places Arkham · Dunwich · Innsmouth · Y'han tlei · Land of Dreams · R'lyeh · Yaddit · Yuggoth · Yag
Creatures of Azathoth * Gatanoa · Hydra · Golgor · The Hounds of Tindal · Dagon · Yog Sothoth · Cthulhu · Nodens · Nyarlathotep · Ran Tegot · Tsathoggua · Shub Niggurat
Races The Great Race of Yit · Deep sea · Ancient · Flying Polyps · Mi go · Descendants of Cthulhu · Elders · Shoggots
Personalities of Abdul Alhazred · Friedrich von Juntz
Fictional books The Book of Eibon · Cults of Ghouls · People of the Monolith · Necronomicon · Pnakotic Manuscripts · Secret cults · Secrets of the Worm · Text of R'lyeh
Main works The Dunwich Horror · The Call of Cthulhu · The Shadow Over Innsmouth · Beyond the Edge of Time · The Ridges of Madness · The Whisperer in the Dark
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