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"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft.It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11).
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft, which also includes his essay on weird fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature". It was originally published in 1965 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,471 copies. Unlike some other first editions of Lovecraft collections issued by Arkham House in ...
Fan illustration of a Deep One from Lovecraft's story "Dagon" The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth , but were already hinted at in the early short story "Dagon". The Deep Ones are a race of intelligent ocean-dwelling creatures ...
Dagon (Spanish: Dagon, la secta del mar) is a 2001 Spanish horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Dennis Paoli. It is loosely based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story Dagon (1919) and his 1936 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The film takes place in "Imboca", a Spanish adaptation of "Innsmouth". [1]
Soon afterwards, he wrote "The Tomb" and "Dagon". [54] "The Tomb", by Lovecraft's own admission, was greatly influenced by the style and structure of Edgar Allan Poe's works. [55] Meanwhile, "Dagon" is considered Lovecraft's first work that displays the concepts and themes that his writings later became known for. [56]
[4]: viii While these monstrous deities were present in almost all of Lovecraft's published work (his second short story "Dagon", published in 1919, is considered the start of the Mythos), the first story to really expand the pantheon of Great Old Ones and its themes is "The Call of Cthulhu", which was published in 1928.
The creature known as Dagon is first introduced in Lovecraft's 1917 tale of the same name. As related in " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( 1937 ), Asenath Waite , the possessed victim of her father Ephraim Waite , is by implication one of the human/Deep One hybrids, and was a resident of Innsmouth before attending Miskatonic University .
Though titled after Lovecraft's story "Dagon", the film is actually an effective adaptation of his story The Shadow over Innsmouth. Cthulhu is a 2000 Australian low budget horror film directed, produced, and written by Damian Heffernan. It is mostly based on two Lovecraft stories, "The Thing on the Doorstep" and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.