Dagon

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201953 pagesCaliber Comics

A morphine-addicted officer aboard a captured cargo ship survives and recounts an encounter with a monstrous entity he calls Dagon — a vast, fish-like Great Old One that emerges from the sea near a remote island. The creature's indifference to its victims is as terrifying as its malice; it does not even notice the fishermen it slaughter before them. Lovecraft's foundational Cthulhu Mythos tale blends cosmic horror with visceral body horror and a haunting, hallucinatory atmosphere.

Avg. reading time: 1h 0m
Prose complexity: 4/10

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H.P. Lovecraft

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fi...

Steven Philip Jones