{"_id":"69d0ba27e834a2dc5642d14a","title":"Ancient Sorceries","author":"Algernon Blackwood","code":"ancient-sorceries","publish_year":1908,"publish_source":"John Silence, Physician Extraordinary","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/johnsilencephysi00blac/page/74/mode/2up","words":18811,"image":"writing.jpg","image_alt":"A pen writing. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","gothic","fantasy"],"description":"Dr John Silence meets a man who found himself staying in a French town full of a very cat-like atmosphere and cat-like people.","blurb":"“The odd notion came to me that really she had intended to make quite a different movement, and that with a single bound she could have leaped at me across the width of that stone yard and pounced upon me like some huge cat upon a mouse.”","unique_cover":"Cats and a man with a cat-woman.","cover_source":"The Willows and other Queer Tales","series":"John Silence","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}