Discovered also is a strange statue of a monstrous sea god killing a whale. But that is where the Augustus finds Emma Loveless, sole survivor of a private jet crash.

Its crew is unaccustomed to picking up castaways, especially on uncharted islands in the middle of the Atlantic. Lovecraft’s Dagon which is a special double sized issue. Having suffered from cancer of the small intestine for more than a year, Lovecraft died in March of 1937.This comic issue is the adaptation of H.P. It was here, during the last decade of his life, that Lovecraft produced the vast majority of his best-known fiction, including The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Thing on the Doorstep and arguably his most famous story, The Call of Cthulhu. In 1924, Lovecraft married and moved to New York, but he disliked life there intensely, and struggled to find work.Ī few years later, penniless and now divorced, he returned to Rhode Island. In 1917, he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as Dagon and A Reminiscence of Dr. In 1913, Lovecraft was invited to join the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association) – a development which re-invigorated his writing. However, in 1908, Lovecraft suffered a nervous breakdown and failed to get into university, sparking a period of five years in which he all but vanished. At just sixteen he was writing a monthly astronomy column for his local newspaper. Although a sickly boy, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA. is publishing this classic short story now as part of our “Fantasy and Horror Classics” imprint in a new edition with a dedication by George Henry Weiss. Other notable works by this author include: “The Call of Cthulhu”, “The Rats in the Walls”, and “The Shadow over Innsmouth”.

Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. A chilling tale by a master story-teller, “Dagon” is not to be missed by lovers of supernatural fiction and collectors of Lovecraft’s seminal work.

After escaping his captors, he drifted for many miles before winding up stranded in a hellish place littered with rotting carcasses and home to an ancient horror. One of the first stories he wrote as an adult, it centres around the recollection of a tortured, morphine-addicted narrator who was captured by a German ship during World War I. “Dagon” is a 1917 short story by American author H.

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