{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5daf","title":"The Cone","publish_year":1895,"publish_source":"Unicorn","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"the-cone","words":4207,"image":"factory.jpg","image_alt":"The insides of a factory with large hooks and high walkways. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","gothic","horror"],"description":"The manager of an ironworks gives a tour to an artist secretly having an affair with his wife. The artist is paranoid as to whether the manager knows the truth, and they find themselves coincidentally visiting many parts of the factory capable of crushing, burning and boiling a man.","blurb":"And look at those furnaces of mine, how they rise upon us as we come down the hill. That to the right is my pet—seventy feet of him. I packed him myself, and he’s boiled away cheerfully with iron in his guts for five long years.","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}