Lovecraft H.P. The Temple 

Voice: Gordon Gould

German captain blames german crew for not being german enough, news at nein. (I did like the story though)

The Temple was the first of Lovecraft's works that I ever read and it still stands as one of my favorites. The idea of it being a "recovered journal" lends a kind of authenticity and limitation to the narrative that makes it special.

To critics, this is science FICTION, not a u-boat technical manual.

As a Rhinelander I must admit I felt that burn...

That prussian man is probably the Lovecraft character with the biggest balls of all his tales. Respect.

Monster kicks him in the balls, and bites his arm off. German captain: This is all probably a hallucination, and I must have injured myself, without realizing it.

4 dislikes from 'Soft, Womanish Rheinlanders'

dear God, this is wonderfully done....

Voice is perfect for the material.

i just realized lovecraft was likely the originator of "found footage" genre

I get the feeling that the protagonist is German to some extent.

This story would be very different with a Brit sub captain. 'The old girl set down next to an old temple. Went for a stroll after tea. Weather isn't as unpleasant as one might expect. Plenty of light as well. Lovely view of the city. Some nice works of art. Some are a bit much, I must say. Don't worry for me, boys. I've got my feet under the table down here. When you're done with Jerry we'll share a laugh. Yours, Jack.'

Me: “DEUTSCHLAND DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLE-“ Dagon: “Excuse me could you not”

The Ocean: "shoulda swallowed the Seamen"

Liking the Orson Wells radio vibe.

The man says the ship sank bow first. Yes, I'm talking to you, Monsieur Illustrator.

If U-boats weren't stresfully claustrophobic enough

"Did I mention I'm German ?" - German man

As i conduct myself in callous and abhorrent ways i would also like to explain that im German for at least 50 times.

Lights completely out, still writes in his journal. Writes a hundred pages, still fits it in a bottle. Walks around in a deep underwater temple, extreme pressure not a problem. Hates Rheinlanders, loves all things German. I guess that’s how the Iron German Will works.

That's two German U-boats that had the most remarkable and perilous journeys! The other one can be found in the pages of Edgar Rice Burroughs The Land That Time Forgot.

When an infamously xenophobic author deliberately tries to write an even more bigoted character.

H. P. Lovecraft was a master of cosmic horror. His work has influenced science fiction and horror for decades. Hardly anyone knows his name. True story, I was at the local library and I asked the librarian if they had any H. P. Lovecraft books, she quickly led me to a shelf with books on marital relations, how to pick up girls etc etc. I burst out laughing and was quickly shushed by her boss.

The dolphins: Hey, Hey stupid humans you really don't want to go that way!!! Germans: Nein it'll be fine.

Oh boy, I gotta listen to this again right now. I don't care about Lovecraft's "racism" he was one hell of a writer and I hate to say it but his xenophobia probably aided his ability to write horror stories

I've read Lovecraft's entire fiction, and from all of his lesser stories, this is my absolute favorite. The atmosphere, weirdness and dread in this story is amazing!

This is so good, everything is just top notch. Even the atmospheric tones in the background, I really like that.

Fascinating, how much he knew about German mentality.

The Temple is one of my favorite early Lovecraft stories, even though WW1 and WW2 U-Boats didn't actually have portholes for viewing outside of them, or underwater searchlights on them. All you need is a little suspension of disbelief on these points though. :-)

Well done, I wish this artist and narrator would tackle all of Lovecraft's material.

Fun fact. When a german sailor dies, a dolphin gets its fins. Its a wonderful reicht

Bravo! To Lovecraft (my man) for the story but also the video creator for this most excellent accomplishment. All of HPL deserves to be done in this manner.

I'm suddenly compelled to play Bioshock.

Damn. How have I never heard of this Tanabe Gou guy? Everybody brings up Ito when they talk about Lovecraftian manga, but I've never heard them talk about this guy.

Very handsome prolly Italian or Greek 😂

me and my boyfriend really love your videos... the stories are great, as are the illustrations, and your voice makes for good background noise when were trying to sleep. in our opinion you deserve much more recognition.

That was just fantastic. My favourite reader combined with brilliant art work. Just fantastic.

To be tormented for all eternity for denying the undeniable. I am now paying the price for my sordid insolence and stubbornness. Why didn’t I leave with him why oh why?

Who the hell dislikes this ?

I only have one comment or question, which is more like a rant: why in the holy hell hasn't this been made into a movie? We get remake after remake of ineptly written trash while we sit on vast treasure troves of incredibly gripping tales. Hollywood should be ashamed of itself

This dudes main personality trait is being german

The German version is awesome as well

I learned to write suspense, dread, and horror by studying HP Lovecraft stories line by line by line. Such a genius.

> Italian > Very handsome Pick one

Since the protagonist is a german officer, you should listen to the german audiobook or, even better, the german audio drama released by Gruselkabinett. Both are really great and since they are spoken in german, they make the narration even more believable. The audio drama has some extremely shocking sound effects, especially at the very end... And yes, those Rheinländers, living in Cologne and the city's surroundings, are weak-minded Kölsch-drinkers!

I believe, and this may be a stretch, but I believe one of these men might be Prussian...

its nice how he wrote it from a German military perspective, describing all his own acts as superior and other nations unjustly hostile towards them, their liberators. Though the way he beat his men for freaking out, makes me wonder if im more out of the times or if there was more personal dislike of the germans. Though its pretty inarguable that during the world wars their tactics and treatment of people during war time was less than human not counting where their actions were completely geared for the strategic impact of war, and worse with the few ranks given freedom to commit any hanious pleasures. Still that seems to me be partly the nature of war rather than the culture of the germans. Either way I could imagine being trapped on a ship with a captain so cruel and paradoxically fearful of the things he can't control/understand.

Great HP story. Great illustrations. It's a shame Hollywood cant seem to do them.

This channel is a fucking goldmine for HP Lovecraft fans such as I.

what did you use to have that voice effect its amazing!

Fantastic, thank you so much for creating this piece of work. Really enjoyable.

That. Was. Fantastic. I couldn't stop watching at the end, gave me a bit of wonder and fear.

Does anyone know where that music sample comes from?

Came here to relisten to this banger after hearing about that sub that dissapeared near the titanic.

this gives me serious Arthur Machen vibes

that was such an amazing rendition of this story, I'm just getting into Lovecraft, thanks for such an amazing video! readers voice and the art was SPOT. ON.

Just a note: no Imperial German Navy officer would be carrying a Walther P.38 in 1917.

Would this iron-willed submarine captain happen to be a German, by any chance?

this was the first story to that of dagon after this is about the kid who got stuck out at sea and found himself awoken on a black untouched peice of sea floor which must of rosen miles from below to be at the surface and after days of walking he witnesses dagon jump out of a tar like lagoon and grasp onto a piller of unknown hight and let out a blood currdling scream

Oh my goodness, this story. The reading is great, the illustrations are a luxury, the sound design is wonderfully subtle and effective. thank you so much for this! But my goodness, the constant "aharrrr, I'm a cynical merciless cruel arrogant German, jawoll!" - did Mr. Lovecraft write this after somebody German took the last piece of chocolate cake from the desert cart? I'm really having difficulties focusing on the story because it feels like that's just the vehicle for his stock German recital. Well, I'm feeling weirdly flattered that Germans now have their own place in the global community of _People H.P.Lovecraft Can't Stand_ .

I'm responsible for like 30 of these views. So well made!

Thanks for the illustrations, a good story😊

That german captain was so stupid he didn't even realize that when he entered that temple he was going to be damned for eternity. Whatever god was in that temple did not have good plans for him.

Have you ever illustrated H Beam Piper's police operation or A Martian odyssey? Cause think your take of ether of those would be cool . AK

The illustrations are fantastic.

Bravo!!!! Bravo!!!! Magnificent production!!!! More please!!!! H. P. Lovecraft is the best!!!!

He must have had very small handwriting. This is a damn wordy message in a bottle.

This is so awesome I instantly subbed and added the whole english playlist to my library. Amazing work!!!!

Perhaps this officer will rise to the occasion and save the billionaire sub after becoming a cosmic horror himself.

This popped up in my recommended and I'm so glad it did. The voice work was fantastic, and the art was beautiful, reminded me of Commando comics. Subbed and going to listen to more!

The best of the lesser known Lovecraft stories

One of his best! Not too many adverbs or adjectives. It reminds me a bit of 2001. I've never seen this in any of his anthologies, that I can remember.

This was fantastic!!!

1 word: Respect. if the user is Russian ( based on his name). офигительно. прекрасна сделано. я хвалю тебя за такую качественную работу.

Thank you, the effort on this must be insane! This is exactly what I wanted to do with Cool Air before I gave up.

Yeah, Lovecraft's lack of knowledge of submarines is all that makes this story possible. I don't know about today's military submarines, but I do know that WWI and even WWII submarines did not have any portholes, relying on sonar alone for navigation. Only touring and deep sea exploration submersibles have any windows at all.

Wow, the narrator and visuals in this are so cool. Thanks for sharing art with us. The Temple has always been my favorite Lovecraft story. The ending just gives goosebumps

Amazing content!!! The lovecraft mind was a vast and unique one...

Must listen to this in full, again, immediately .

AND THEN HE SAW GODZILLA

Bought this manga recently, "H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories" by Gou Tanabe. This story really gripped me & had me feeling claustrophobic. The artwork is superb!

Does anyone else watch The King of Queens?

This is great! One of my all time favourite Lovecraft Novellas!

The sight of an automatic pistol calmed them. Sort of the exact opposite of the effect such a thing would have on most people. Lol.

...Incredibly well written, narrated and illustrated!...

If only Das Boot had ended like this!

Lovecraft had a beautiful imagination. Awesome study in eccentricity as well.

I know a bit of Russian, so I was able to read one of the titles (third from the top to the side of the RU-vid player) as HP Lovecraft's Dagon. For the others I'll have to drag out my Russian/English dictionaries!

this is amazing! great work

Amazing job. One of my favorites. One question: Did WW1 sub's have windows? I always knew dolphins were evil.

very good drawing

This is why the French surrender.

I'm only 10 minutes in here... but this guy is a sociopath. "We had to shoot him for this un german affair and this calmed the crew". "The sight of a pistol seemed to calm them.". "I shot all six men" then seconds later "My only surviving crewmate seemed nervous.". Well no. fucking. shit buddy.

Good work.

This kind of channel is what makes RU-vid worth it.

I will never forget this voice... It's so amazing :)

It agitates me that we will never know the conclusion of what's in the temple is, and why it drove the man crazy.

Well done 👏👏👏

This story was actually found in an empty old 1908 Stein wine bottle. It washed up on Miami Beach.