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Science tells us that we have explored less than 5% of our own oceans. We assume that the bottom of the sea stays at the bottom, but what if it decides to come up for air? We unseal a suicide note found in a slum in San Francisco—the testimony of a morphine addict who drifted onto a landmass that shouldn't exist and looked into the eye of a god that shouldn't be alive.

The drug is wearing off. The hand is at the window. Let’s open the file.

We are investigating Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft.

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Inside the Analysis:

• The Horror of Scale: Dagon isn't scary because he is evil; he is scary because he is "stupendous." We analyze the core of Cosmic Horror—the realization that humans are just surface-dwelling pests on a planet owned by entities from the deep.
• The Geology of Madness: Strip away the romance of the sea and replace it with rot. We examine "The Mire"—a volcanic chunk of the ocean floor that proves if you drain the Pacific, you won't find Atlantis; you will find a graveyard.
• The Ocean Blindness: While we look for aliens on Mars, Lovecraft argues they are already here under the pressure line. We discuss why we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about our own trenches.

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Credits:
• Author: H.P. Lovecraft
• Narration & Analysis: The Dupin Files
• Music: Myuu (https://thedarkpiano.com)
• License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

About The Dupin Files:
We unseal the archives of literary history to investigate the world's greatest short stories. The Dupin Files is a weekly immersive audio drama podcast dedicated to Gothic Horror, Weird Fiction, and Psychological Thrillers.

We go beyond the standard audiobook. We transform the original text into a cinema-quality soundscape, followed by a forensic analysis of the narrative.

Our growing archive investigates the masters of the genre:
From the titans like Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Guy de Maupassant, to the Victorian ghosts of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James. We also explore the psychological and weird fiction of Algernon Blackwood, Stephen Crane, Walter de la Mare, W.F. Harvey, W.W. Jacobs, Willa Cather, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.