Dagon (novel)

Not to be confused with Dagon (short story).

Dagon

Author	Fred Chappell
Language	English
Genre	Horror, Psychological thriller
Publisher	Harcourt, Brace & World
Publication date	1968
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	177 p.
OCLC	1438823

Dagon ^[1] is a novel by author Fred Chappell published in 1968. The novel is a psychological thriller with supernatural elements, attempting to tell a Cthulhu Mythos story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic novel. It was awarded the Best Foreign Book of the Year prize by the French Academy in 1972. ^[2]

This early novel is one of the author's most widely read works. In The New York Times , it was praised as being "of a very high order [and] precise, dry elegance". ^[3]

Bibliography

• Casey Clabough, "Fred Chappell's Cthulhu Appropriations: Dagon", in Lovecraft Studies, 44, pp. 113–118.

References

1. "Dagon". www.bosonbooks.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
2. "Fred Chappell b. 1936". Poetry Foundation . Retrieved May 25, 2012.
3. "Dagon by Fred Chappell". Archived from the original on July 20, 2008. Retrieved July 9, 2009.

Further reading

• Lupoff, Richard A. (2009). "The SF Site Featured Review: Dagon". www.sfsite.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
• Clabough, Casey (September 2003). "Appropriations of History, Gothicism, and Cthulhu: Fred Chappell's Dagon". Mosaic. Winnipeg.
• "DAGON by Fred Chappell | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
• Casey Howard Clabough (2005). "Chapter 3: Appropriations of History, Gothicism, and Ctulhu: Dogan". Experimentation and Versatility: The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell. Mercer University Press. p. 49. ISBN   978-0-86554-945-6.