A review by troystory
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft

5.0

The only reason I picked this book up was because I'm interested in trying my hand at writing horror, and I had heard that Lovecraft was a true master of the genre - not that I'm normally one for reading this kind of stuff. For some reason, I decided that my compendium of Lovecraftian horror tales would be the perfect book to read by the pool, and that wasn't a smart choice. Dagon doesn't use poetic language, or incite much philosophical discussion, or even have a cast of compelling characters (actually, I think it only has one - the narrator), but it does incite the worst kind of fear, the kind that creeps in your mind and sinks in your bones and turns your veins to ice. It's dreadful, it's horrifying, and it does its job very well. I can't wait to finish The Call of Cthulhu for more wonderfully weird horror!