For Lovecraft, this is an oft cited problem by critics and fans alike. Written in the first person, so as to keep the reader guessing at the veracity of the narrator’s profoundly surreal claims, Dagon sacrifices its shot at an effective ending with its final lines. And while it doesn’t leave one with chills or impending nightmares, thanks largely to its campy purple ending, there is a kernel at the heart of Dagon that functions as true, distilled cosmic horror.
It’s a fantastic piece of strange fiction, blending history and popular science with hallucinatory nightmare imagery. Part confession, part suicide note, the short story details a nameless narrator's traumatic experience in the Pacific ocean during the first world war. Lovecraft in 1917 and first published two years later by The Vagrant, is often credited the first of the Providence author’s Cthulhu Mythos building blocks.
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