The Temple of Dagon

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:22 am**

Hi,

Trying to find an H P Lovecraft story. Can't remember the name at all...

It's about a guy living/staying in some kind of apartment block or hotel room and he listens to some guy play the violin....I think the guy plays the music to keep demons or somethign away from him.

Any clue?

I just rediscovered Lovecraft and would love to re-read this story. All my books are back home, I live abroad....but the works are online...

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:29 pm**

that is of course the music of erich zann

Posted: **Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:56 pm**

thats a damn good one, it would make a sweet short movie.

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:22 am**

Yeah, easy...hahah - but with out the copies here and no index hard to find...I've been scratching my head for weeks...So thank you.

Yes, I agree I always pictured that as a short film, a little like the Twilight zone

Thanks again

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:52 am**

Great story. Real intense

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 7:56 am**

I believed used on this punk LP cover...

Rudimentary Peni's Cacophony...not their best LP but some mad Lovecraft rabblings in the lyrics.

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:22 pm**

There's a decent audio version at Pseudopod. It's #100, I believe.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:21 am**

Thats a pretty cool site, need to check that out in further detail.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:52 am**

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:There's a decent audio version at Pseudopod. It's #100, I believe.

Thanks for that - good recording - I'll be checking the rest out.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:12 pm**

They have quite a few good stories. It's a rare weekend when I actually delete the podcast before it's over.

Posted: **Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:16 pm**

One of my favourites =]

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:12 pm**

blue_demon wrote:It's about a guy living/staying in some kind of apartment block or hotel room and he listens to some guy play the violin....

Hate to be a stickler, but it's actually a Viol he plays, not a Violin. Everyone confuses the two when talking about this story.

Posted: **Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:10 pm**

Oh well I say Reginald, how foooolish the lower classes must be to confuse a exquisite Viol, with a pathetic violin. I say. lol I'm just shitting yah

Posted: **Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:39 am**

I didn't even realise there was a difference until I read it in Joshi's Lovecraft Encyclopedia

Posted: **Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:37 pm**

There have been many short amateur film adaptations of "The Music of Erich Zann," one of which is available as part of a DVD program from LURKER FILMS. The story itself may be found in the Penguin paperback, THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP & OTHER WEIRD STORIES, my favourite of ye three Penguin editions edited by S. T. Joshi, that Dark Ghod of Lovecraft Studies.

The Temple of Dagon

Which Lovecraft story is this?

Which Lovecraft story is this?

thanks

Re: Which Lovecraft story is this?