The Other Gods And More Unearthly Tales
“was apparently written in the latter half of 1920—possibly August 20, a date cited in the tale and Lovecraft’s thirtieth birthday. It is marred by somewhat clumsy and obvious satire against the German protagonist of the tale, and also by a plethora of supernatural details that do not seem to fuse into a unity; but its portrayal of the narrator’s gradual descent into madness is powerful. It was the first of Lovecraft’s stories not to appear in an amateur journal prior to its publication in a pro...fessional venue: its first appearance was in Weird Tales (September 1925).
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°, W. Longitude 35°, where my ship lies disabled on the ocean floor. I do so because of my desire to set certain unusual facts before the public; a thing I shall not in all probability survive to accomplish in person, since the circumstances surrounding me are as menacing as they are extraordinary, and involve not only the hopeless crippling of the U-29, but the impairment of my iron German will in a manner most disastrous.MoreLess
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°, W. Longitude 35°, where my ship lies disabled on the ocean floor. I do so because of my desire to set certain unusual facts before the public; a thing I shall not in all probability survive to accomplish in person, since the circumstances surrounding me are as menacing as they are extraordinary, and involve not only the hopeless crippling of the U-29, but the impairment of my iron German will in a manner most disastrous.MoreLess
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