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Dagon is a novel by Fred Chappell, first published in 1968. It blends the Southern Gothic and Lovecraftian elements--the latter signaled by the novel's epigraph, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl ftagn." Ultimately, whether the evil abundantly on display in the book is supernatural or not is left to the reader's imagination.
Publication History[]
Dagon was first published in hardcover by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1968, and in paperback by St. Martin's Press in 1987. In that same year, St. Martin's included it as part of the hardcover edition of The Fred Chappell Reader, a paperback version of which was released by the publisher in 1990. Other paperback editions were published by Louisiana State University Press (2002) and Boson Books (2009).[1]
Awards[]
Dagon was named best foreign book of the year by the French Academy in 1971.[2]
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References[]
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: Dagon".
- ↑ Duke University Library, "Fred Chappell Papers".