{"_id":"63b381fcf668db4982628361","title":"The Empire of the Necromancers","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-empire-of-the-necromancers","words":3456,"publish_year":1932,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v20n03_1932-09_sas/page/n51/mode/2up","publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 20, No. 3","image":"skull.jpg","image_alt":"A human skull, graphite filter.","genres":["fantasy","horror","gothic"],"blurb":"And recalling it, he felt a vague stirring of revolt, a ghostly resentment against the magicians who had haled him forth to this calamitous mockery of life.","description":"After two necromancers raise an undead army with which they plan to become rulers of the land, one of the undead begins to remember his past life.","unique_cover":"Drawing of two men and a sekeleton carrying gear. One men rides a skeleton horse.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}