Lovecraft, H P - Dagon

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Dagon

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written July 1917

Published November 1919 in The Vagrant, No. 11, 23-29.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.

Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, I

can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the

squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a

degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though

never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.

It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific that the

packet of which I was supercargo fell a victim to the German sea-raider. The great war

was then at its very beginning, and the ocean forces of the Hun had not completely sunk

to their later degradation; so that our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of her

crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as naval prisoners. So

liberal, indeed, was the discipline of our captors, that five days after we were taken I

managed to escape alone in a small boat with water and provisions for a good length of

time.

When I finally found myself adrift and free, I had but little idea of my surroundings.

Never a competent navigator, I could only guess vaguely by the sun and stars that I was

somewhat south of the equator. Of the longitude I knew nothing, and no island or

coastline was in sight. The weather kept fair, and for uncounted days I drifted aimlessly

beneath the scorching sun; waiting either for some passing ship, or to be cast on the

shores of some habitable land. But neither ship nor land appeared, and I began to despair

in my solitude upon the heaving vastness of unbroken blue.

The change happened whilst I slept. Its details I shall never know; for my slumber,

though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous. When at last I awakened, it was to

discover myself half sucked into a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended

about me in monotonous undulations as far as I could see, and in which my boat lay

grounded some distance away.

Though one might well imagine that my first sensation would be of wonder at so

prodigious and unexpected a transformation of scenery, I was in reality more horrified

than astonished; for there was in the air and in the rotting soil a sinister quality which

chilled me to the very core. The region was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish,

and of other less describable things which I saw protruding from the nasty mud of the

unending plain. Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable

hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. There was nothing

within hearing, and nothing in sight save a vast reach of black slime; yet the very

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DagonDagonbyH.P.LovecraftWrittenJuly1917PublishedNovember1919inTheVagrant,No.11,23-29.Iamwritingthisunderanappreciablementalstrain,sincebytonightIshallbenomore.Penniless,andattheendofmysupplyofthedrugwhichalone,makeslifeendurable,Icanbearthetorturenolonger;andshallcastmyselffromthisgarretwindowintot...

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