{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e3c","title":"In the Vault","publish_year":1925,"publish_source":"The Tryout","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","code":"in-the-vault","words":3401,"image":"coffin.jpg","image_alt":"A wooden coffin with a cross. Graphite filter","genres":["gothic","horror"],"blurb":"The undertaker grew doubly lethargic in the bitter weather, and seemed to outdo even himself in carelessness. Never did he knock together flimsier and ungainlier caskets, or disregard more flagrantly the needs of the rusty lock on the tomb door which he slammed open and shut with such nonchalant abandon.","description":"An undertaker grows lax in his care for the burial process. Then one day he accidentally locks himself in a vault with several yet-to-be buried coffins and learns to regret having ever disrespected the dead.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"Drawing of a man with his upper body hanging over a door and reaching out.","cover_source":"Weird Tales","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"gothic","title":"Best of Gothic","collection_type":"genre"}]}