Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

About this book

A sailor discovers a landscape that should never have risen from the sea. Elsewhere, an ancient object or a half-forgotten memory may open onto something vast and indifferent to human life.

This collection brings together shorter works from H. P. Lovecraft's early development as a writer of weird fiction. Dreamlike fantasy, macabre encounters and the beginnings of cosmic horror share space in a single volume. The stories are worth reading for their variety, from intimate nightmares to the suggestion that civilisation occupies only a fragile corner of reality.