Lovecraftian Short Story

[Aira Seeker]

Many years ago I read a short story that struck me as very Lovecraftian. After an earthquake or storm some (sailors? fishermen?) find a small island that seems to have risen from the seabed - covered with seaweed etc. On the island there's a (cave? temple? structure?) in which they find what they first think is a statue, then realize it is a person turned to stone. One of them looks into its eyes and sees an image etched into the back of its eye of a Cthulhu-like creature, the sight of which apparently petrified him.
Does anybody recognize the story? Perhaps one that HPL ghost-wrote?
Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Dagon. The island was covered with very mucky, icky, stinky seaweed. Its one of the first short stories that got published. He wrote it in 1917, though he had written quite a bit before then.

 

[hitmouse]

Yep, Dagon, or if not, a pastiche of Dagon.

 

[Aira Seeker]

Thanks, Robert Zwilling and hitmouse. I just re-read Dagon, and the story I remember was obviously inspired by it. I'll keep looking.

 

[CassFrank]

This is possibly The Horror Out of Time by Randall Garrett. It is a pastiche of Lovecraft’s Dagon and follows very closely to what your described. Story links here