{"_id":"677529f2857e4f9c0e8d2bdc","title":"The Birds","author":"Daphne du Maurier","code":"the-birds","words":13876,"publish_year":1952,"publish_source":"The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69096/page/n7/mode/2up","image":"four.jpg","image_alt":"Four birds flying far away in the sky. Graphite Filter..","genres":["horror","gothic","adventure"],"blurb":"His hammering helped to deafen the sound of the birds, the shuffling, the tapping, and more ominous—he did not want his wife or the children to hear it—the splinter of cracked glass.","description":"Nat Hocken opens his door to a tapping sound and is attacked by a manic bird. Strange as the incident is, things only escalate from there.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"Sketch of a boarded door with many beaks and talons piercing and clawing through the wood.","cover_source":"Evan C. Lewis","has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"birds","title":"Of a Feather","collection_type":"theme"}]}