{"_id":"6562d465c7872669ab817036","title":"The End of the Story","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-end-of-the-story","publish_year":1930,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 15, No. 5","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v15n05_1930-05_sas/page/n61/mode/2up","words":7148,"image":"bookcase.jpg","image_alt":"A tall bookcase and a ladder. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy","gothic"],"description":"Christophe Morand seeks shelter from a storm, finding it in an abbey full of hospitable monks. He is shown around their library, but warned from reading one book in particular.","blurb":"“There is a curse on the pages that you hold in your hand: an evil spell, a malign power is attached to them, and he who would venture to peruse them is henceforward in dire peril both of body and soul.”","rating":5,"unique_cover":"Cover of 'The End of the Story'. A man in a cowl holds a sparkling wand up to a bare-breasted woman partially covered in a robe. Black and white sketch.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}