He escapes on a lifeboat and drifts aimlessly, south of the equator, until he eventually finds himself stranded on "a slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about in monotonous undulations as far as could see. In the unnamed narrator's account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific". The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales in October 1923. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. "Dagon" is a short story by American author H.
Title page of "Dagon" as it appeared in Weird Tales, October 1923, where it was published for the second time.
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