{"_id":"63e73871c54d060c180bb548","title":"Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"johnny-pye-and-the-fool-killer","words":8259,"publish_year":1938,"publish_source":"The Saturday Evening Post","publish_edition":"Vol. 210, No. 12","image":"stare.jpg","image_alt":"A tense, staring eye of a man's face. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","literary"],"unique_cover":"Pen drawing of a boy fishing in a swirling pool next to a wooden house on stilts.","blurb":"For it occurred to him that, if all the doctor’s cleverness got him was being ridden out of town on a rail, he couldn’t be so far away from the Fool-Killer as he thought. And, sure enough, as he was going to sleep that night, he seemed to hear the Fool-Killer’s footsteps coming after him.","description":"A young boy’s harsh parents tell him that he’s a fool and the fool-killer will get him someday. So the impressionable lad runs away and spends years trying to find an adult that can make a clever man out of him.","rating":5,"cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"quirky","title":"Best of Quirky","collection_type":"genre"}]}