{"_id":"678f2d41ad70456864bf50f5","title":"The Gateway of the Monster","author":"William Hope Hodgson","code":"the-gateway-of-the-monster","words":8657,"publish_year":1910,"publish_source":"The Idler","publish_edition":"Vol. 36, Iss. 88","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_idler-an-illustrated-monthly-magazine_1910-01_36_88/page/402/mode/2up","image":"chalk.jpg","image_alt":"Chalk being drawn over a wood floor next to a candle and match. Graphite Filter.","genres":["mystery","fantasy","gothic"],"blurb":"“It passed swiftly ’round the circle, and seemed to probe ever toward me; but only to draw back with extraordinary jerky movements, as might a living person if they touched the hot bar of a grate.”","description":"Carnacki is called to a house to sort out the mysterious noises coming from the ‘grey room’, a room where three different people were found strangled to death in generations past.","rating":4,"series":"Thomas Carnacki","unique_cover":"Two men peer into a room with an ornate bed.","cover_position":"right","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"mystery","title":"Best of Mystery","collection_type":"genre"}]}