Dagon

Well, the premise of this book sounded very intriguing. A couple, Peter Leland and his wife Sheila, spend the summer on a remote farm house he inherited from him grandparents. Him working on a book about Dagon, an old deity of fertility, him murdering him wife... but soon it became very tedious, sti......more

SPOILER INSIDE!! SOMEWHERE THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS!! WARNING! WARNING! ATTENTION PLEASE SPOILER INSIDE!! Dagon: 2☆Sinceramente no. Che sfiga ho quest'anno con i libri. Quando ho letto Cthullhu nella trama dietro ho capito che voleva appoggiarsi su Lovecraft. Anche Lovecraft l'unico che ho letto non m......more

You see phrases like "Mythos story played straight" and "Lovecraftian story cast as Southern Gothic" and both of those seem about right when describing Dagon, a book about a failure of a man who deals, though not really, with his imminent collapse and the weight of history on his shoulders while som......more

huh? I didn't really get much of a lovecraft feel out of this, im not even sure if there are fishpeople in it or if they are just a really ugly family. and the priest suddenly thinks "ima kill my wife" i thought it'd have to do more with the house he inherited and his family history but nah. i don't......more

This is a sort of southern gothic horror with a Lovecraft influence, with a Cthulhu theme. The most interesting thing about it is that it has two endings, apparently as Chappell himself couldn’t decide which one to use. It’s intriguing, certainly original, but has as many places in which it doesn’t......more