He wrote the story after being encouraged by the editor of The Vagrant, W. Lovecraft’s Dream: Dagon was inspired by a dream that Lovecraft had, one where he felt like something oozy was sucking him down.Inspiration for Dagonĭagon had several clear inspirations, including: His final words are “God, that hand! The window! The window!” leaving us to believe that the horrible monstrosities that had driven the man mad, had finally come for him. We learn that this tale is actually the man’s suicide note.īut just at this moment, the man writes of hearing a noise at the door, and of a huge wet body banging itself against it. He believes that the being he saw was the Philistine god, Dagon, a Fish-God, and his terror leads to his morphine addiction. No one had seen the island, and no one believed his story. The man is terrified and flees back to his boat, survives a huge storm, and eventually wakes up in a San Francisco hospital, where he learns that he had been rescued by a U. It has huge scaled arms, and a fish-like head. It’s huge, and reminiscent of the fish-men carved into the monolith. Then a creature emerges from the water nearby. The monolith contains hieroglyphics of various aquatic symbols, but also depicts fish-like men. He eventually comes to a hill, which has a huge white stone monolith on it, a monolith that was clearly made by intelligent life.
He stays there for three days before proceeding on foot, looking for possible rescue. The man speculates that the area must have been part of the Pacific floor that was thrown up by volcanic activity, and it had been buried for millions of years, untouched until now. He would eventually escape and drift until he found himself a “black mire”, which was full of rotting fish and more foul stenches. He tells of being on a cargo ship that was captured by a German sea-raider in the Pacific. Lovecraftĭagon is told by an officer of World War I, who is now addicted to morphine, and is telling the story of why he has fallen to his current low. This article will give you a summary and background of this short story, along with the full text below. The story is notable for being largely considered the first story in what we now call the “Cthulhu Mythos”. The Vagrant (issue #11) is where it was initially released, and it was later republished in a 1923 issue of Weird Tales, the magazine that saw much of Lovecraft’s best work printed. Lovecraft in July of 1917, and it was published two years later in November of 1919.
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