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The affect of the First World Warfare was strong on H. P. Lovecraft, for in his youth he was an ardent Anglophile and continued to be almost fanatically such a long time after the end of that issue. Thus the portrayal of the "Prussian beast" created by propagandists was accepted by him at face value and utilized in this story of an U-boat that ran afoul of your unearthly foe. Notwithstanding the actual fact of Nazi horror during the Second World Warfare, we should perforce admit the artificial characteristics of Lovecraft's protagonist's boasting - yet even so the author's mastery of suspenseful terror holds "The Temple" along to a genuine climax of ocean-bottom shock.
