"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

October 2026

The novel is a short maritime horror story by the French writer Georges-Gustave Toudouze (often listed in English as George G. Toudouze). It first appeared in French in 1927 under the title “La tour d’épouvante” (“The Tower of Terror”), and its first English publication was...