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The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer. The story mentions Piltdown Man, which had not been exposed by the scientific community as a hoax at the time of writing. Fulwiler has also suggested that Lovecraft took the story's theme of "an ancient prehuman race that will someday rise to conquer humanity" from Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core (1914). Cobb's Fishhead, a story about a strange fish-like human. "I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down!" he later wrote.Ĭritic William Fulwiler indicates Lovecraft was influenced by Irvin S. The story was inspired in part by a dream he had. That summer, Lovecraft wrote two stories: " The Tomb" and "Dagon". Paul Cook, editor of the amateur press journal The Vagrant, encouraged Lovecraft to resume writing fiction.

( EXP: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales) It has many elements that foreshadow future stories, such as The Call of Cthulhu and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and the title is an allusion to Dagon, a Great Old One who would appear in subsequent works.Īfter reading Lovecraft's juvenalia in 1917, W. To some people, "Dagon" is one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. Later, in October of 1923, Dagon was published in Weird Tales. It is one of the first stories he wrote as an adult, and was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11).