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 '''"Dagon"''' is a short story by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of ''The Vagrant'' (issue #11).
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 ==Inspiration==
 After reading Lovecraft's juvenalia in 1917, W. Paul Cook, editor of the amateur press journal ''The Vagrant'', encouraged Lovecraft to resume writing fiction. That summer, Lovecraft wrote two stories: "The Tomb" and "Dagon".

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 [[File:Dagon.jpg|200px|thumb|Right|Dagon in Mesopotamian Sculpture]]
 '''"Dagon"''' is a short story by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of ''The Vagrant'' (issue #11).
 ==Inspiration==

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	*From 1983 to 1990, [[Carl T. Ford]] produced and edited a Lovecraft literary and gaming magazine named [[Dagon (Magazine)]].		*From 1983 to 1990, [[Carl T. Ford]] produced and edited a Lovecraft literary and gaming magazine named [[Dagon (Magazine)]].
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		+	== Associated Mythos Elements ==
		+	* [[Cthulhu]]
		+	* [[Dagon and Hydra]]
		+	* [[Deep Ones]]

	== Trivia ==		== Trivia ==

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 ==Other presentations==
-*A reference to Dagon appears again in Lovecraft's "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]" (1936), one of Lovecraft's best-known stories. The tale concerns a Massachusetts town that has been taken over by the [[Deep One|Deep Ones]], a race of water-breathing humanoids. A center of the Deep Ones' power in [[Innsmouth]] is the Esoteric Order of Dagon, ostensibly a Masonic-style fraternal order. Other Cthulhu Mythos stories refer to the creature as Father Dagon, depicting him as having a similar being, [[Mother Hydra]], as a mate.
+*A reference to Dagon appears again in Lovecraft's "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]" (1936), one of Lovecraft's best-known stories. The tale concerns a Massachusetts town that has been taken over by the [[Deep One|Deep Ones]], a race of water-breathing humanoids. A center of the Deep Ones' power in [[Innsmouth]] is the Esoteric Order of Dagon, ostensibly a Masonic-style fraternal order. Other Cthulhu Mythos stories refer to the creature as Father Dagon, depicting him as having a similar being, [[Dagon and Hydra|Mother Hydra]], as a mate.
 *Director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli, who worked together on ''Re-Animator,'' made a movie called ''[[Dagon (2001 film)|Dagon]]'' in 2001. Though the film credits both Lovecraft's "Dagon" and his "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," much more of the plot is (loosely) adapted from the latter story.

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 Price suggests that readers of "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]" may be mistaken as to the identity of the "Dagon" worshipped by that story's [[Deep Ones]]: In contrast to the Old Ones' alien-sounding names, "the name 'Dagon' is a direct borrowing from familiar sources, and implies that [[Obed Marsh]] and his confederates had chosen the closest biblical analogy to the real object of worship of the deep ones<!-- sic -->, namely Great Cthulhu." (Price, p. ix).
-Lin Carter, who thought "Dagon" an "excellent" story, remarked that it was "an interesting prefiguring of themes later to emerge in [Lovecraft's] Cthulhu stories. The volcanic upheaval that temporarily exposes long-drowned horrors above the waves, for example, reappears in "[[The Call of Cthulhu (Fiction)|The Call of Cthulhu]]" (1926)". (Carter, p. 10). Other parallels between the two stories include a horrifying tale told by a sailor rescued at sea; a gigantic, sea-dwelling monster (compared to Polyphemus in each tale); an apocalyptic vision of humanity's destruction at the hands of ancient nonhuman intelligences; and a narrator who fears he is doomed to die because of the knowledge he has gained. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz call the latter story "manifestly an exhaustive reworking of 'Dagon'". (Joshi and Schultz, "Call of Cthulhu, The", p. 29).
+Lin Carter, who thought "Dagon" an "excellent" story, remarked that it was "an interesting prefiguring of themes later to emerge in [Lovecraft's] Cthulhu stories. The volcanic upheaval that temporarily exposes long-drowned horrors above the waves, for example, reappears in "[[The Call of Cthulhu (fiction)|The Call of Cthulhu]]" (1926)". (Carter, p. 10). Other parallels between the two stories include a horrifying tale told by a sailor rescued at sea; a gigantic, sea-dwelling monster (compared to Polyphemus in each tale); an apocalyptic vision of humanity's destruction at the hands of ancient nonhuman intelligences; and a narrator who fears he is doomed to die because of the knowledge he has gained. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz call the latter story "manifestly an exhaustive reworking of 'Dagon'". (Joshi and Schultz, "Call of Cthulhu, The", p. 29).
 In "The Call of Cthulhu", one of the newspaper clipping collected by the late [[Professor Angell]] mentions a suicide from a window that may correspond to the death of the narrator of "Dagon".

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 *A reference to Dagon appears again in Lovecraft's "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]" (1936), one of Lovecraft's best-known stories. The tale concerns a Massachusetts town that has been taken over by the [[Deep One|Deep Ones]], a race of water-breathing humanoids. A center of the Deep Ones' power in [[Innsmouth]] is the Esoteric Order of Dagon, ostensibly a Masonic-style fraternal order. Other Cthulhu Mythos stories refer to the creature as Father Dagon, depicting him as having a similar being, [[Mother Hydra]], as a mate.
-*Director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli, who worked together on ''Re-Animator,'' made a movie called ''[[Dagon (2001 movie)|Dagon]]'' in 2001. Though the film credits both Lovecraft's "Dagon" and his "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," much more of the plot is (loosely) adapted from the latter story.
+*Director Stuart Gordon and screenwriter Dennis Paoli, who worked together on ''Re-Animator,'' made a movie called ''[[Dagon (2001 film)|Dagon]]'' in 2001. Though the film credits both Lovecraft's "Dagon" and his "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," much more of the plot is (loosely) adapted from the latter story.
 *[[Fred Chappell]], considered a literary writer, wrote a novel called ''Dagon'', which attempted to tell a Cthulhu Mythos story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic novel. The novel was awarded the Best Foreign Novel Prize by the French Academy in 1972.

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	'''"Dagon"''' is a short story by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of ''The Vagrant'' (issue #11).		'''"Dagon"''' is a short story by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of ''The Vagrant'' (issue #11).

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