The Temple of Dagon

Adrian wrote:No way, Warren himself said that. Atleats I've always thought that. Like he went mad. He was somehow connected to the beasts down there and then he became one of them, just like the guy in "Shadows over Innsmouth" or smt.

thats exactly what i believe

I guess that's possible, but is there anything that supports that in the text?

idk research required i guess but i'm not doing it

slacker

there is a vague suggestion of it by carter in his pleas to the authorities. i cant remember the exact wording and would rather not paraphrase

Why not just put the actual quotation?

Just read the story through, three times....

While nothing says that it was not Warren speaking at the end, nothing makes reference to it being him either.

I'm picturing some corpse that has remained "fat and firm" in its tomb, the subject of Warren's theory the night before he went into the sepulcher, sending the legion of "hellish things" to destroy the unfortunate investigator.

Could still be Warren on the radio, though. Perhaps the hellish things were just ladybugs.

starrysothoth wrote:Agreed. Neil Gaiman also echoed this sentiment in the Eldritch Influence documentary about Lovecraft from a couple years ago. He said something akin to seeing a drawing of a Shoggoth and being disappointed, since the mind will almost always conjure up a weirder, scarier version.

I don't know, I've seen some pretty good, weird pictures of shoggoths...

let's have a new thread for shoggoth pictures. i've seen a few decent ones, though it'll take some surfing to find them again...