Dagon
Dagon opens to the deranged ramblings of a morphine-addicted World War One veteran, who is writing his last will and testament before committing suicide. In his letter, he discusses the reason behind his morphine use, and the source of the madness which it quells.
The Soldier's CaptureThe unnamed soldier starts at the beginning of his tale; his capture by a German sea-raider. He soon escapes on a life boat, and drifts through the seas before arriving on a landmass described as a "Slimy expanse of hellish black mire which extended about him in monotonous undulations as far as he could see"
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Exploring the Mire
The soldier describes the ground as littered with fish carcasses, and assumes that it is the result of a recent volcanic upheaval, revealing what was once the murky seabed to the surface. He waits three days for the soil to dry to a walkable level, then sets out to regain his bearings. He travels across the landmass for two days before finally reaching his goal; a "hill" which proved to be a mound of boggy earth on the edge of an "immeasurably vast pit or canyon"
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DagonThe soldier descends into the pit, coming across a large stone monolith covered in sprawling pictograms and unfamiliar hieroglyphics themed after various sea creatures. As the soldier is examining the monolith, a large fishlike creature rises from the water below and wraps its' arms around the monolith. The soldier flees to his lifeboat, and is later rescued from the middle of the ocean by a U.S. ship
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Eldritch Visions
The soldier inquires around, but finds no evidence of any volcanic upheaval in the pacific. Despite his lack of proof, he is constantly plagued by terrible visions of the creature (especially "when the moon is gibbous and waning") and turns to morphine for solace. The tale ends with the soldier's declaration that he has used the last of his morphine, and that he intends to throw himself from his window to the streets below. He is hastened in his departure from this life by a noise at the door, "as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it..."