# Temple Trouble

Author: Piper, H. Beam, 1904-1964

Genre: Science Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18861

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Temple+Trouble+Piper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Through a haze of incense and altar smoke, Yat-Zar looked down from his golden throne at the end of the dusky, many-pillared temple. Yat-Zar was an idol, of gigantic size and extraordinarily good workmanship; he had three eyes, made of turquoises as big as doorknobs, and six arms. In his three right hands, from top to bottom, he held a sword with a flame-shaped blade, a jeweled object of vaguely phallic appearance, and, by the ears, a rabbit. In his left hands were a bronze torch with burnished copper flames, a big goblet, and a pair of scales with an egg in one pan balanced against a skull in the other. He had a long bifurcate beard made of gold wire, feet like a bird's, and other rather...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temple-trouble-18861/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temple-trouble-18861/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temple-trouble-18861/chapters/3/index.md)