Dagon

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

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The Beast in the Cave

H. P. Lovecraft

The Beast in the Cave is a short story that was written between the spring of 1904 and April 1905, when Lovecraft was only 14 years old. It was first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur press magazine The Vagrant.

It tells the story of a man who gets lost exploring Mammoth Cave when he becomes separated from his guide. As he goes along and his torch expires, he loses hope of finding a way out.

Suddenly he hears non-human footsteps approaching him, so he picks up a stone and throws it towards the source of the sound and the beast is hit and collapses to the ground. Afterwards, the guide finds the man and they both examine the creature with the light of his torch.

The Alchemist

H. P. Lovecraft

The Alchemist is a short story written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18 years old, and first published in the November 1916 issue of United Amateur.

The story is told by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine’s noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard’s son, Charles le Sorcier, swore vengeance not only on him, but on all his descendants, cursing them to death on their 32nd birthday.

Antoine has reached adulthood and his 32nd birthday is approaching.

The Tomb

H. P. Lovecraft

The Tomb is a short story written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley who, as a boy, discovers the entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family.

After trying and failing to break the padlock, he lies down to sleep next to the tomb. Several years later, Jervas falls asleep again next to the mausoleum and when he wakes up he returns to his house, and goes directly to the attic, to a rotten chest, and there he finds the key to the tomb.

Once inside the tomb, Jervas discovers an empty coffin with the name “Jervas” inscribed on the plaque and begins to sleep in the empty coffin every night, but those who see him sleeping see him outside the tomb, not inside as he believes.

The Transition of Juan Romero

H. P. Lovecraft

It is a short story written on September 16, 1919 (written in less than a day) and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia.

Originally The Transition of Juan Romero consisted of an illustrative exercise (only for his small circle of correspondents), intended solely to quickly demonstrate what could be done with a desert setting that had been used in a story by Professor Philip Bayaud McDonald (which Lovecraft considered a “dull yarn”).

The story is about a mine that uncovers a chasm deep enough that no sounding line will reach the bottom. The night following its discovery, the narrator and one of the mine workers, named Juan Romero, venture inside. Romero reaches the abyss first and is swallowed by it. The narrator peers over the edge, sees something and loses consciousness. The next morning, both are found in their bunks.

The Temple

H. P. Lovecraft

The Temple is a short story written in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925. It is a nautical story during the days of World War I, in which the sunken remains of an ancient and elaborate city are seen at the bottom of the ocean.

The story is told as a “found manuscript” written by a lieutenant commander in the Imperial German Navy. He begins by stating that he has decided to document the events that led to his untimely end knowing that he will not survive to do so himself.

In the North Atlantic, after sinking a British freighter, the cruel lieutenant commander orders his submarine to dive, and later on surfacing they find the body of a seaman who died clinging to the exterior railing. Soon after, strange phenomena begin to occur.