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
- ↑ "Dagon". www.bosonbooks.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ↑ "Fred Chappell b. 1936". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ↑ "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.
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