Written in July 1917, Dagon is one of Lovecraft most forward-looking stories. Many of his features a land mass suddenly emerging from the depths of the ocean, a monster who may be one of an entire race of creatures dwelling on the underside of the world, the narrator‘s psychological devastation of the monsters mirror existence, foreshadow the call of Cthulhu and later stories where the supernatural has been replaced by the scientifically plausible. But as in pool it is the narrators emotional trauma that is at the heart of the tale. The story was Lovecraft’s first to be published in Weird Tales in October 1923.