{"_id":"639e5cfefb9f578a6b32e7d4","title":"The Chain of Aforgomon","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-chain-of-aforgomon","words":6524,"publish_year":1935,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 26, No. 6","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v26n06_1935-12_sas_-783-784_ifcibc/page/n39/mode/2up","image":"chains.jpg","image_alt":"Long, iron chains falling onto a tense but open hand, palm up. Graphite filter.","genres":["fantasy","gothic","mystery","sci-fi"],"blurb":"Sometimes I almost doubt that he ever existed. It is as if the man, and all that pertains to him, were being erased from human record by some mysterious acceleration of the common process of obliteration.","description":"After his death, all memory and evidence of John Milwarp seems to be fading from the world, a diary of his experiments with strange drugs may be the only explanation of the queer phenomenon.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"A drawing of a shirtless man with his palm raised to the sky next to a robed man in a garden.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"dreams","title":"Living the Dream","collection_type":"theme"}]}