![]() ![]() ".regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God." The Sumerian deity is sometimes depicted as being part fish, or simply wearing a fish. As to the name of the story, Lovercraft seems to be referring to the ancient Sumerian god named Dagon who is the fertility god of grains and fish, because in the story, the main character make inquiries. The story mentions Piltdown Man, which had not been exposed by the scientific community as a fraud and 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. Critic William Fulwiler indicates that Lovecraft may have been influenced by Irvin S. "I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down " he later wrote. That summer, Lovecraft wrote two stories: "The Tomb" and "Dagon." The story was inspired in part by a dream he had. Paul Cook, editor of the amateur press journal The Vagrant, encouraged Lovecraft to resume writing fiction. ![]() After reading Lovecraft's juvenilia in 1917, W. ![]() ![]() It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. ![]()
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