# Necronomicon Podcast: Dagon

An episode of [Forbidden Knowledge News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1470192028), 5 Sep 2026, 15 min.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Enjoy this full episode of Necronomicon Podcast. Get access to
[0:05] Speaker 1: every episode on our website and all podcast platforms. Welcome
[0:23] Speaker 1: to the Necronomicon Podcast. An exploration... of the works of H.P.
[0:31] Speaker 1: Lovecraft and other Tales of Terror. Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft
[0:54] Speaker 1: 1917 I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain,
[1:02] Speaker 1: since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and
[1:07] Speaker 1: at the end of my supply of the drug which
[1:09] Speaker 1: alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer,
[1:13] Speaker 1: and shall cast myself from this garret window into the
[1:16] Speaker 1: squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to
[1:20] Speaker 1: morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When
[1:23] Speaker 1: you have read these hastily scrawled pages, you may guess,
[1:27] Speaker 1: though never fully realize, why it is that I must
[1:31] Speaker 1: have forgetfulness or death. It was in one of the
[1:35] Speaker 1: most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific
[1:38] Speaker 1: that the packet of which I was supercargo fell a
[1:41] Speaker 1: victim to the German Sea Raider. The Great War was
[1:45] Speaker 1: then at its very beginning, and the ocean forces of
[1:48] Speaker 1: the Hun had not completely sunk to their later degradation.
[1:53] Speaker 1: So that our vessel was made a legitimate prize, while...
[1:57] Speaker 1: we of her crew were treated with all the fairness
[2:00] Speaker 1: and consideration due us as naval prisoners. So liberal indeed
[2:04] Speaker 1: was the discipline of our captors that five days after
[2:07] Speaker 1: we were taken, I managed to escape alone in a
[2:10] Speaker 1: small boat with water and provisions for a good length
[2:13] Speaker 1: of time. When I finally found myself adrift and free,
[2:17] Speaker 1: I had but little idea of my surroundings. Never a
[2:20] Speaker 1: competent navigator, I could only guess vaguely by the sun
[2:23] Speaker 1: and stars that I was somewhat south of the equator.
[2:27] Speaker 1: Of the longitude I knew nothing, and no island or
[2:29] Speaker 1: coastline was in sight. The weather kept fair, and for
[2:33] Speaker 1: uncounted days I drifted aimlessly beneath the scorching sun, waiting
[2:37] Speaker 1: either for some passing ship, or to be cast on
[2:40] Speaker 1: the shores of some habitable island. But neither land nor
[2:44] Speaker 1: ship appeared, and I began to despair in my solitude
[2:47] Speaker 1: upon heaving vastness of unbroken blue. The change happened whilst
[2:53] Speaker 1: I slept. Its details I shall never know. for my slumber,
[2:57] Speaker 1: though troubled and dream-infested, was continuous. When at last I awaked,
[3:02] Speaker 1: it was to discover myself half-sucked into a slimy expanse
[3:06] Speaker 1: of hellish black mire which extended about me in monotonous
[3:10] Speaker 1: undulations as far as I could see, and in which
[3:13] Speaker 1: my boat lay grounded some distance away. Though one might
[3:18] Speaker 1: well imagine that my first sensation would be of wonder
[3:21] Speaker 1: at so prodigious and unexpected a transformation of scenery, I
[3:25] Speaker 1: was in reality more horrified than astonished, for there was
[3:29] Speaker 1: in the air and in the rotting soil a sinister
[3:32] Speaker 1: quality which chilled me to the very core. The region
[3:35] Speaker 1: was putrid with the carcasses of decaying fish and of
[3:38] Speaker 1: other less describable things which I saw protruding from the
[3:42] Speaker 1: nasty mud of the unending plain. Perhaps I should not
[3:46] Speaker 1: hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that
[3:50] Speaker 1: can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. There was
[3:54] Speaker 1: nothing within hearing and nothing in sight save a vast
[3:57] Speaker 1: reach of black slime, yet the very completeness of the
[4:01] Speaker 1: stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with
[4:05] Speaker 1: a nauseating fear. The sun was blazing down from a
[4:09] Speaker 1: sky which seemed to me almost black in its cloudless cruelty,
[4:13] Speaker 1: as though reflecting the inky marsh beneath my feet. As
[4:16] Speaker 1: I crawled into the stranded boat, I realized that only
[4:20] Speaker 1: one theory could explain my position. Through some unprecedented volcanic upheaval,
[4:25] Speaker 1: a portion of the ocean floor must have been thrown
[4:28] Speaker 1: to the surface, exposing regions for which innumerable millions of
[4:31] Speaker 1: years had laid hidden under unfathomable watery depths. So great
[4:36] Speaker 1: was the extent of the new land which had risen
[4:38] Speaker 1: beneath me that I could not detect the faintest noise
[4:41] Speaker 1: of the surging ocean. Strain my ears as I might.
[4:45] Speaker 1: Nor were there any sea-fowl to prey upon the dead things.
[4:49] Speaker 1: For several hours I sat thinking or brooding in the
[4:51] Speaker 1: boat which lay upon its side and afforded a slight
[4:54] Speaker 1: shade as the sun moved across the heavens. As the
[4:58] Speaker 1: day progressed, the ground lost some of its stickiness and
[5:01] Speaker 1: seemed likely to dry sufficiently for traveling purposes in a
[5:04] Speaker 1: short time. That night I slept but little, and the
[5:08] Speaker 1: next day I made myself a pack containing food and
[5:11] Speaker 1: water preparatory to an overland journey in search of the
[5:14] Speaker 1: vanished sea and possible rescue. On the third morning, I
[5:19] Speaker 1: found the soil dry enough to walk upon with ease.
[5:22] Speaker 1: The odor of the fish was maddening, but I was
[5:25] Speaker 1: too much concerned with graver things to mind so slight
[5:28] Speaker 1: and evil, and set out boldly for an unknown goal.
[5:33] Speaker 1: All day I forged steadily westward, guided by a faraway hummock,
[5:37] Speaker 1: which rose higher than any other elevation on the rolling desert.
[5:41] Speaker 1: That night I encamped, and on the following day still
[5:44] Speaker 1: traveled towards the hummock. though that object seemed scarcely nearer
[5:48] Speaker 1: than when I first espied it. By the fourth evening,
[5:52] Speaker 1: I attained the base of the mound, which turned out
[5:55] Speaker 1: to be much higher than it had appeared from a distance,
[5:58] Speaker 1: an intervening valley setting out in sharper relief from the
[6:01] Speaker 1: general surface. Too weary to ascend, I slept in the
[6:05] Speaker 1: shadow of the hill. I know not why my dreams
[6:09] Speaker 1: were so wild that night, but ere the warning and
[6:11] Speaker 1: fantastically gibbous moon had risen far above the eastern plains,
[6:16] Speaker 1: I was awake in a cold perspiration, determined to sleep
[6:19] Speaker 1: no more. Such visions as I had experienced were too
[6:23] Speaker 1: much for me to endure again, and in the glow
[6:25] Speaker 1: of the moon I saw how unwise I had been
[6:29] Speaker 1: to travel by day. Without the glare of the parching sun,
[6:32] Speaker 1: my journey would have cost me less energy. Indeed, I
[6:36] Speaker 1: now felt quite able to perform the ascent which had
[6:39] Speaker 1: deterred me at sunset. Picking up my pack, I started
[6:43] Speaker 1: for the crest of the eminence. I have said that
[6:46] Speaker 1: the unbroken monotony of the rolling plain was a source
[6:49] Speaker 1: of vague horror to me, but I think my horror
[6:51] Speaker 1: was greater when I gained the summit of the mound
[6:54] Speaker 1: and looked down the other side into an immeasurable pit
[6:57] Speaker 1: or canyon whose black recesses the moon had not yet
[7:00] Speaker 1: soared high enough to illuminate. I felt myself on the
[7:04] Speaker 1: edge of the world, peering over the rim into the
[7:06] Speaker 1: fathomless chaos of eternal night. Through my terror ran curious
[7:11] Speaker 1: reminiscence of paradise lost, and of Satan's hideous climb through
[7:14] Speaker 1: the unfashioned realm of darkness. As the moon climbed higher
[7:19] Speaker 1: in the sky, I began to see that the slopes
[7:21] Speaker 1: of the valley were not quite so perpendicular as I
[7:24] Speaker 1: had imagined. Ledges and outcroppings of rock afforded fairly easy
[7:28] Speaker 1: footholds for a descent, whilst after a drop of a
[7:31] Speaker 1: few hundred feet, the declivity became very gradual. Urged on
[7:35] Speaker 1: by an impulse which I cannot definitely analyze, I scrambled
[7:39] Speaker 1: with difficulty down the rocks and stood on the gentler slope,
[7:42] Speaker 1: beneath gazing into the Stygian depths where no light had
[7:46] Speaker 1: yet penetrated. All at once my attention was captured by
[7:50] Speaker 1: a vast and singular object on the opposite slope which
[7:54] Speaker 1: rose steeply about a hundred yards ahead of me, an
[7:57] Speaker 1: object that gleamed whitely in the newly bestowed rays of
[8:00] Speaker 1: the ascending moon. That it was merely a gigantic piece
[8:03] Speaker 1: of stone I soon assured myself, but I was conscious
[8:07] Speaker 1: of a distinct impression that its contour and position changed
[8:10] Speaker 1: were not altogether the work of nature. A closer scrutiny
[8:14] Speaker 1: filled me with sensations I cannot express, for despite its
[8:18] Speaker 1: enormous magnitude and its position in an abyss which had
[8:21] Speaker 1: yawned at the bottom of the sea since the world
[8:23] Speaker 1: was young, I perceived beyond a doubt that the strange
[8:27] Speaker 1: object was a well-shaped monolith whose mass of bulk had
[8:31] Speaker 1: known the workmanship and perhaps the worship of living and
[8:34] Speaker 1: thinking creatures. Dazed and frightened, yet not without a certain
[8:38] Speaker 1: thrill of the scientist's or archaeologist's delight, I examined my
[8:42] Speaker 1: surroundings more closely. The moon, now near zenith, shone weirdly
[8:47] Speaker 1: and vividly above the towering steeps that hemmed in the
[8:50] Speaker 1: chasm and revealed the fact that a far-flung body of
[8:53] Speaker 1: water flowed at the bottom, winding out of sight in
[8:56] Speaker 1: both directions and almost lapping at my feet as I
[8:59] Speaker 1: stood on the slope. Across the chasm, the wavelets washed
[9:03] Speaker 1: the base of the Cyclopean monolith, on whose surface I
[9:06] Speaker 1: could now trace both inscriptions and crude sculptures. The writing
[9:10] Speaker 1: was in a system of hieroglyphics unknown to me, and
[9:14] Speaker 1: unlike anything I'd ever seen in books, consisting for the
[9:17] Speaker 1: most part of the conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octopi, crustaceans, mollusks, whales,
[9:23] Speaker 1: and the like. Several characters obviously represented marine things which
[9:28] Speaker 1: are unknown to the modern world, but whose decomposing forms
[9:31] Speaker 1: I had observed in the ocean-risen plain. It was the
[9:36] Speaker 1: pictorial carving, however, that did most to hold me spellbound.
[9:40] Speaker 1: Plainly visible across the intervening water on account of their
[9:43] Speaker 1: enormous size were an array of bas-reliefs whose subjects would
[9:47] Speaker 1: have excited the envy of a dore. I think that
[9:51] Speaker 1: these things were supposed to depict men, at least a
[9:54] Speaker 1: certain sort of men, though the creatures were shrewd, disporting
[9:58] Speaker 1: like fishes in the water of some marine grotto, or
[10:01] Speaker 1: paying homage at some monolithic shrine which appeared to be
[10:04] Speaker 1: under the waves as well. Of their faces and forms
[10:08] Speaker 1: I dare not speak in detail, for the mere remembrance
[10:11] Speaker 1: makes me grow faint, grotesque beyond the imagination of a
[10:15] Speaker 1: Poe or a Bulwer, They were damnably human in general
[10:19] Speaker 1: outline despite webbed hands and feet, shockingly wide and flabby lips,
[10:23] Speaker 1: glassy bulging eyes and other features less pleasant to recall.
[10:28] Speaker 1: Curiously enough, they seemed to have been chiseled badly out
[10:31] Speaker 1: of proportion with their scenic background, for one of the
[10:34] Speaker 1: creatures was shunned in the act of killing a whale
[10:37] Speaker 1: represented as but a little larger than himself. I remarked,
[10:41] Speaker 1: as I say, their grotesqueness and strange size, but in
[10:45] Speaker 1: a moment decided that that they were merely the imaginary
[10:47] Speaker 1: gods of some primitive fishing or seafaring tribe, some tribe
[10:51] Speaker 1: whose last descendant had perished eras before the first ancestor
[10:55] Speaker 1: of the Piltdown or Neanderthal man was born. Awestruck at
[10:59] Speaker 1: this unexpected glimpse into a past beyond the conception of
[11:03] Speaker 1: the most daring anthropologist, I stood musing whilst the moon
[11:07] Speaker 1: cast queer reflections on the silent channel before me. Then
[11:12] Speaker 1: suddenly I saw it with only a slight churning to
[11:15] Speaker 1: mark its rise on the surface. The thing slid into
[11:18] Speaker 1: view above the dark waters. Vast, polyphemous-like, and loathsome, it
[11:23] Speaker 1: darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith,
[11:26] Speaker 1: about which it flung its gigantic, scaly arms, the while
[11:30] Speaker 1: it bowed its head and gave vent to certain measured sounds.
[11:35] Speaker 1: I think I went mad then. Of my frantic ascent
[11:39] Speaker 1: of the slope and cliff, and of my delirious journey
[11:41] Speaker 1: back to the stranded boat I remember little. I believe
[11:44] Speaker 1: I sang a great deal, and laughed oddly when I
[11:47] Speaker 1: was unable to sing. I have indistinct recollections of a
[11:51] Speaker 1: great storm sometime after I reached the boat. At any rate,
[11:55] Speaker 1: I know that I heard peals of thunder and other
[11:57] Speaker 1: tones which nature utters only in her wildest moods. When
[12:02] Speaker 1: I came out of the shadows, I was in a
[12:04] Speaker 1: San Francisco hospital, brought thither by the captain of the
[12:07] Speaker 1: American ship, which had picked up my boat in mid-ocean.
[12:11] Speaker 1: In my delirium I had said much, but found that
[12:14] Speaker 1: my words had been given scant attention. Of any land
[12:17] Speaker 1: upheaval in the Pacific, my rescuers knew nothing, nor did
[12:20] Speaker 1: I deem it necessary to insist upon a thing which
[12:23] Speaker 1: I knew they could not believe. Once I sought out
[12:26] Speaker 1: a celebrated ethnologist and amused him with peculiar questions regarding
[12:30] Speaker 1: the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the fish god, but
[12:34] Speaker 1: soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional. I did not
[12:38] Speaker 1: press my inquiries. It is at night, especially when the
[12:41] Speaker 1: moon is gibbous and waning, that I see the thing.
[12:44] Speaker 1: I tried morphine, but the drug has given only transient
[12:47] Speaker 1: surcease and has drawn me into its clutches as a
[12:51] Speaker 1: hopeless slave. So now I am to end it all,
[12:55] Speaker 1: having written a full account for the information or the
[12:57] Speaker 1: contemptuous amusement of my fellow men. Often I ask myself
[13:02] Speaker 1: if it could not have all been pure phantasms. a
[13:05] Speaker 1: mere freak of fever as I lay sun-stricken and raving
[13:08] Speaker 1: in the open boat after my escape from the German
[13:10] Speaker 1: man of war. This I ask myself, but ever does
[13:14] Speaker 1: there come before me a hideous, vivid vision in reply.
[13:17] Speaker 1: I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at
[13:20] Speaker 1: the nameless things that may at this very moment be
[13:22] Speaker 1: crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient
[13:26] Speaker 1: stone idols and carving their own detestable likeness on submarine
[13:30] Speaker 1: obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when
[13:35] Speaker 1: they may rise above the billows to drag down in
[13:37] Speaker 1: their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind. Of
[13:42] Speaker 1: a day when the land shall sink and the dark
[13:45] Speaker 1: ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium. The end is near.
[13:50] Speaker 1: I hear a noise at the door as of some immense,
[13:53] Speaker 1: slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God,
[13:58] Speaker 1: that hand! The window! The window! Ah! Oh, oh.

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