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Dagon

Name: Dagon
Author: H.P. Lovecraft

"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant . Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories.

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

H.P. Lovecraft book Dagon

Fiction
Source: "Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919)

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

H.P. Lovecraft book Dagon

"Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919) 
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.