{"_id":"69f3b4da13be7f6dab461892","title":"The Cairn on the Headland","author":"Robert E. Howard","code":"the-cairn-on-the-headland","publish_year":1933,"publish_source":"Strange Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 3, No. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/StrangeTalesOfMysteryTerrorV03n01193301/page/121/mode/2up","words":7876,"image":"oldtrain.jpg","image_alt":"A puffing train crossing a bridge","genres":["horror","fantasy"],"description":"Two men find a cairn. One wants to uncover what might be underneath, but the other is suspicious of disturbing such an ancience monument.","blurb":"“Yonder, in the long ago, when Tomar’s Wood rose dark and rustling against the plain of Contarf, and the Danish walls of Dublin loomed south of the river Liffey, the ravens fed on the slain and the setting sun lighted lakes of crimson.”","rating":5,"unique_cover":"A viking, standing tall","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}