{"_id":"6930cdaf4b39b410dbceb6ea","title":"Morella","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","code":"morella","publish_year":1835,"publish_source":"Southern Literary Messenger","publish_edition":"Vol. 1, Iss. 7","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_southern-literary-messenger_1835-03_1_7/page/332/mode/2up","words":2093,"image":"pendulum.jpg","image_alt":"A large steel sphere.","genres":["gothic","horror"],"description":"A man finds himself under the power of an erudite and influential wife, and soon finds himself wishing to be free from her corrupting presence.","blurb":"I could no longer bear the touch of her wan fingers, nor the low tone of her musical language, nor the lustre of her melancholy eyes. And she knew all this, but did not upbraid; she seemed conscious of my weakness or my folly, and, smiling, called it Fate.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Pen ink drawing of a man lying over a woman with her eyes closed, covered in flowers.","cover_source":"Harry Clarke","cover_link":"https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-clarke-s-illustrations-for-poe-s-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-1919/","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"spell","title":"Under a Spell","collection_type":"theme"}]}