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| Author | Fred Chappell |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror, Psychological thriller |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World |
| Publication date | 1968 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 177 p. |
| OCLC | 1438823 |
Dagon 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.
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 precise, dry elegance".
Bibliography
- Casey Clabough, "Fred Chappell's Cthulhu Appropriations: Dagon", in Lovecraft Studies, 44, pp. 113–118.
References
- "Dagon". www.bosonbooks.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- "Fred Chappell b. 1936". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- "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 2016-02-20.
- 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 2016-02-20.
- 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.
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