One of my friends made this beautiful copy of Dagon a few years back. It's stark and surreal. Probably still my favourite Lovecraft story. It's just a vivid condensation of all his themes, minus the pages of crass racism. There's the inexplicable contortions of geometry, the paranoia of an always-already polluted body, and the indeterminacy of whether the phenomenon we're witnessing is the shattering of a human psyche, a natural pattern, or a cosmic principle. I find later Lovecraft becomes more didactic and expository. It's a shame.


Illustration by E. D. Royard


Illustration by James Collins

[Edit: they made two different versions of this book! Half are filled with woodcuts by E. D. Royard, and the other half are by James Collins. You don't know which version you have until you open the book!]