The Temple

Summary

The Temple is a literary work^[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• The Temple authored H. P. Lovecraft^[3].
• The Temple's image is recorded as The Temple - Lovecraftian Concept Art by Mihail Bila.jpg^[4].
• The Temple's instance of is recorded as literary work^[5].
• The Temple's genre is recorded as horror literature^[6].
• The Temple's genre is recorded as weird fiction^[7].
• The Temple's Commons category is recorded as The Temple (short story)^[8].
• The Temple's language of work or name is recorded as English^[9].
• The Temple's country of origin is recorded as United States^[10].
• +1920-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Temple^[11].
• The Temple's publication date is recorded as +1925-00-00T00:00:00Z^[12].
• The Temple's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fq45v^[13].
• The Temple's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 41876^[14].
• The Temple's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Temple'}^[15].
• The Temple's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'On August 20, 1917, I, Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, Lieutenant-Commander in the Imperial German Navy and in charge of the submarine U-29, deposit this bottle and record in the Atlantic Ocean at a point to me unknown but probably about N. Latitude 20 degrees, W. Longitude 35 degrees, where my ship lies disabled on the ocean floor.'}^[16].
• The Temple's Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature NILF ID is recorded as 1050688^[17].
• The Temple's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'So I will carefully don my suit and walk boldly up the steps into the primal shrine, that silent secret of unfathomed waters and uncounted years.'}^[18].
• The Temple's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 21838^[19].
• The Temple's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Literature/TheTemple^[20].
• The Temple's FantLab work ID is recorded as 31631^[21].
• The Temple's form of creative work is recorded as short story^[22].
• The Temple's Colon Classification is recorded as O111,6M90,177^[23].
• The Temple's Archive of Our Own tag is recorded as The Temple - H. P. Lovecraft^[24].

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Works and Contributions

The Temple authored H. P. Lovecraft^[3].

Why It Matters

The Temple ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[26]