Deep One Hybrids: Spawn Of Dagon By Henry Kuttner

In the Lovecraft story "Dagon," written in 1917, the narrator finds ancient carvings that depict humanoid creatures with webbed hands and bulging eyes, at least one of whom is almost as large as a whale. He then sees a similar creature like that in the flesh--a "vast, Polyphemus-like monster of nightmares," with "gigantic scaly arms."
These smaller specimens are the Deep ones, a species an amphibious race that primarily serve Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, but also have strong ties to Cthulhu, and are known to employ Shoggoths as servants.
Deep Ones are immortal until slain, and may be worshipped by humans. The religion offered by the Deep Ones usually takes the form of certain oaths, offered at rising degrees of "membership", that commit human worshippers to certain agreements. While appearing beneficial and relatively innocent at first, it is not long before the Deep Ones begin to demand more, even to the point of requesting human sacrifices. Such people devote themselves to the Deep Ones, with some eventually taking the Third One, entering into breeding rites to produce hybrid offspring to further promote the Deep One race.
The result of this unholy mating is Deep One Hybrids, they are born with the appearance of a normal human being, they gradually assume the appearance of their Deep One ancestors. When the hybrid becomes too obviously non-human, they go into seclusion in ostensibly abandoned buildings until fully capable of living solely underwater.
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[@SANTOSOSANTOS]

That was a fun little story.. really action packed too.. I can only imagine being a kid or teenager reading this in the late '30' and 40's.. it would be treasured and engrained for a lifetime.. lol

[@AyameFyuu]

I didn’t expect a dwarf wizard but also this was pretty fun! To think there spawns of Eldritch monsters, will say it claiming they came from slime on earth contradicts the idea they aren’t from earth. So will just assume that just because the author not familiar with evolution at the time, but I liked Elak and Lycon definitely earned his mead! A good story need more mythos~

[@cosmicandbodyhorror]

Elak of Atlantis appears in alot of Henry Kuttner works, i will cover more of the

[@Vandelberger]

So the Deep Ones were created on earth as a slave race for Cthulhu, Dagon is his representative. They are alien but also made from terrestrial matter.

[@kristinacable]

Great stuff!❤❤

[@AnthonyBarnwell-vt5gd]

Dagon was a damn good story thanks 👍

[@Vandelberger]

Ingesting to know how many friends Lovecraft actually had and how many contributed to his lore.

[@benwrigley6176]

Thank-you 🎉

[@MatthewSereysothea-hf1js]

This is some seriously weird $h!+ This is. Thank You So Much. The ai is a drag, but the material is Awesome.