Dagon (novel)

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 a New York Times review, 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. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
2. "Fred Chappell b. 1936". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
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 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.