Name: Dagon
ISBN: 9782842284657

Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT

Écrites par Lovecraft entre 1905 et 1937, l'année de sa mort, ces nouvelles nous font plonger au plus profond de nos terreurs, à l'image de Dagon, dieu croupissant dans les abysses marins qui refait surface pour précipiter l'humanité dans l'apocalypse. Elles sont révélatrices du parcours et de l'univers si personnel de Lovecraft : la recherche du passé et des civilisations disparues, des cultes oubliés, des livres perdus dans la nuit des temps, et la peur, dans son expression la plus absolue. Lovecraft viole les tabous, trangresse les interdits, portant à son maximum la nécrophilie - expression idéale de ses obsessions. Les oeuvres réunies ici, remarquables par leur beauté, leur concision et leur onirisme, sont autant de visions cauchemardesques d'une puissance évocatrice inégalée.

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H.P. Lovecraft

"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. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific". He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see.... The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths. Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Outsider, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, What the Moon Brings.

Classic Lovecraft. Everything inspired by Lovecraft is better than actual Lovecraft. It was fine, kinda spooky, just very typical Lovecraft

Jonnie

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“I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.
The end is near.”

Nota

It is pretty simple, and one of the first stories written by Lovecraft. It's hard to make out how the "Dagon" looks or is. The odd situation the protagonist finds themselves in gave me some sort of joy and wonder. I want to see how the author improves from this story.

Ilse

Unfortunately, this story didn't really do it for me. The atmosphere H.P. Lovecraft creates in the few short pages that this story covers was wonderful, but it felt like nothing really significant happened. Maybe one to revisit in the future, but for now not a story I'd recommend by this author

Scott Wilks

Rating All 19 Lovecraft Stories Within the Necronomicon (Audible Audio Book) ~ Part 1 - Dagon.

A gripping and haunting short story from Lovecraft about a man, being swept up on an otherworldly shore with nothing but black rotten earth as far as the eye can see.

Lovecraft flexes his descriptive prowess to make an unimaginable world into a living nightmare.

Definitely, one of the books to read if you want to get you or a friend into the Lovecraftian universe.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Dagon H. P. Lovecraft - "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. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories.The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific". He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about [him] in monotonous undulations as far as [he] could see.... The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and less describable things which [he] saw protruding from the nasty mud of the unending plain." He theorizes that this area was formerly a portion of the ocean floor thrown to the surface by volcanic activity, "exposing regions which for innumerable millions of years had lain hidden under unfathomable watery depths.Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Outsider, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, What the Moon Brings.

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