{"_id":"686a6ac9b92f208ff3cec35a","title":"The Deferred Appointment","author":"Algernon Blackwood","code":"the-deferred-appointment","publish_year":1911,"publish_source":"The Westminster Gazette","publish_edition":"Jan 21","words":2105,"image":"moustache.jpg","image_alt":"A moustached man. Graphite filter.","genres":["gothic"],"description":"A photographer is closing up shop when a local bookseller turns up out of the blue to sit down for a portrait without saying a word.","blurb":"“In that pale, drawn face, and in those staring eyes across the room that gazed so fixedly into the draped camera, he read the signature of illness that no longer knows hope. It was Death that he saw.”","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}