Marie Wheeler
‘I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death.’ – H.P. Lovecraft
That is a bleak start.
Typical for Lovecraft though and beyond being a fantastic piece of fiction, it is possibly the story that lends a smidge of credibility to the mythos. Dagon is not only a character of the Cthulhu Mythos, his name is reflective of actual Babylonian mythology and is mentioned in the Bible in at least three places. Dagon, in that history, was a god of fertility and fishing.
I guess the Dagon of Lovecraft is similar as he has the multitudes of the Deep Ones and has the head of a fish. Samesies?
So my Dagon rendering is not as menacing as I would have liked, though I am pretty in love with that grabbing hand! I feel like I am improving in some aspects and still struggling in others, though this is the first ‘face’ I have really worked on since I can’t realistically count Cthulhu as he is less ‘face’ and more cnidarian in aspect.
Next time I should find a more angry fish for inspiration.
