The Temple book cover
Horror · First published 1925; original Project Gutenberg EPUB · English

The Temple

by H. P. Lovecraft

About this book

A German submarine commander records an increasingly disturbing voyage during the First World War. Mechanical trouble, strained discipline and strange impressions draw the vessel toward a discovery that resists the commander’s confident explanations.

H. P. Lovecraft tells the story through the officer’s own account, allowing the contrast between his certainty and his circumstances to build the horror. This is the complete story from Weird Tales, September 1925, retaining Andrew Brosnatch’s illustration and the original conclusion. The matching magazine cover belongs to that source issue.