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San Francisco

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The city for which the narrator of The Call of Cthulhu took a train while following the Alert's trail, and the city in whose hospital the narrator of Dagon awoke after being rescued from the Pacific.

After a day of hurried cabling and arranging, the narrator bade his host adieu and took a train for San Francisco.

In Dagon, the narrator awoke in a San Francisco hospital after his ordeal at sea, having been brought there by the captain of the American ship that had picked up his boat in mid-ocean.

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Every fact above traces back to the text.

  • That evening, after a day of hurried cabling and arranging, I bade my host adieu and took a train for San Francisco.

    The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea

  • When I came out of the shadows I was in a San Francisco hospital; brought thither by the captain of the American ship which had picked up my boat in mid-ocean.

    Dagon (1919)

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