“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.”
                                        
                                        "Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919) <!-- p. 23-29. --> 
Fiction 
Context: 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.