{"_id":"69ad6504daa58d9633f961b9","title":"The Disinterment of Venus","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-disinterment-of-venus","publish_year":1934,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 25, No. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV24N01193407/page/n113/mode/2up","words":2929,"image":"beauty.jpg","image_alt":"The face of a beautiful woman. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy","horror"],"description":"Monks gardening at an abbey uncover a stone sculptor, soon revealed to one of Venus. Over the following days as they debate what to do, many of the monks begin to have impious dreams and thoughts.","blurb":"By way of extenuation, the three Brothers pleaded that they had been obsessed with carnal thoughts, and images ever since their exhumation of the Venus; and for this they blamed the statue, saying that a pagan witchcraft had come upon them from its flesh-white marble.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}