{"_id":"62d01025662547287aa4c0ba","title":"The Double Shadow","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-double-shadow","words":5136,"image":"shadow.jpg","image_alt":"The blurry shadow of a human. Graphite filter.","publish_year":1933,"publish_source":"The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies","genres":["fantasy","horror","gothic"],"blurb":"I have no knowledge of this thing nor its intention toward me, and no power to stay its progress. Go forth and leave me now; for I would not that any man should witness the defeat of my sorcery and the doom that may follow thereupon.","description":"A master and apprentice of the occult acquire a tablet with inscriptions that not even the master in all his infamous wisdom can decipher. Emboldened by the mystery, the master endeavours to reveal the ancient secrets within whatever it may unleash.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"A pencil sketch of a cloaked person with two shadows heading of left and right.","cover_source":"Evan C. Lewis","has_review":true,"has_collections":[{"code":"choice","title":"Librarian’s Picks","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"monsters","title":"Horror Monsters","collection_type":"theme"},{"code":"fantasy","title":"Best of Fantasy","collection_type":"genre"}]}