The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft. Short summary

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The story told in a suicide note found in a bottle on the Yucatan coast. The note was written by the commander of a German submarine, the only survivor of the entire crew.

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During World War I, a German submarine sank a British merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean. One surviving sailor was hoisted aboard, holding a statue of a young man’s ivory-carved head. The sailor soon died. He was thrown into the sea, but several sailors saw that the corpse came back to life and swam.

Since then, the sailors on the submarine began to go crazy, and some committed suicide. The submarine had an accident and the vessel lost control. Eventually the boat began to sink into the depths of the sea. A riot broke out among the sailors and a fight and shooting broke out. Soon only the ship’s captain survived.

When the submarine sank to the bottom, the surviving captain saw the ruins of an ancient city — it was the legendary Atlantis. When the submarine ran out of power, the captain sent a note in a bottle, put on a diving suit and went to the mysterious Temple, which attracted him like a magnet.