{"_id":"656967262a1a92bf79061724","title":"The Demon of the Flower","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-demon-of-the-flower","publish_year":1933,"publish_source":"Astounding Stories","publish_edition":"Vol. 12, No. 4","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v12n04_1933-12/page/n131/mode/2up","words":3842,"image":"vine.jpg","image_alt":"A leafy vine. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy","gothic","adventure"],"description":"On a strange planet, the human-like inhabitants are ruled by a lordly class of predatory plants, led by a single, large, godly flower. But a high-priest known as Lunithi strays from unquestioning worship when it his own betrothed that is asked to be sacrificed.","blurb":"There were dim myths of some primordial ruler who had dared to refuse the required sacrifice; and whose people, in consequence, had been decimated by a mortal war with the serpentine plants.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Sketch of a cloaked man feeding a plant a liquid.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"}]}