Dagon (Fantasy and Horror Classics) ; With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

<p><strong>He witnessed what lies beneath the waves. Now sanity is his final casualty.</strong></p><p>During the height of World War I an American merchant marine officer escapes capture by a German sea raider only to find himself stranded adrift in the vast uncharted Pacific Ocean. After days of aimless drifting he wakes to a terrifying sight: his small boat rests on a newly risen expanse of black fetid earth--;a landscape thrust up from the ocean floor by a violent volcanic event.</p><p>What follows is a nightmare journey across this bizarre slimy terrain. The officer finds strange crumbling cyclopean ruins and massive moss-covered monoliths covered in hieroglyphs so ancient they predate human language. But the true horror awaits at a giant fissure where he witnesses the emergence of an object of worship:</p><p>A monstrous colossal entity of unimaginable size vaguely amphibious rises from the abyss to pay homage to the ancient carvings. This creature is a manifestation of <strong>Dagon</strong> a terrifying fish-god from forgotten Semitic mythology.</p><p><strong>H. P. Lovecraft's</strong> seminal short story is a cornerstone of the Cthulhu Mythos born from the author's own intense fear of the ocean's depths. <em>Dagon</em> is a classic frantic account of cosmic horror paranoia and the mind-shattering realization that humanity is not alone and that the greatest gods are alien wet and sleeping beneath the sea.</p>