{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e46","title":"The Haunter of the Dark","publish_year":1936,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 28, No. 5","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV28N05193612/page/n27/mode/2up","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","code":"the-haunter-of-the-dark","words":9238,"image":"candle.jpg","image_alt":"A small candle in the dark. Graphite filter","genres":["horror","gothic","mystery"],"blurb":"During the dark hour praying crowds had clustered round the church in the rain with lighted candles and lamps somehow shielded with folded paper and umbrellas—a guard of light to save the city from the nightmare that stalks in darkness.","description":"Artist Robert Blake can see a church from the window of his new house in Providence. Eventually he can bear his curiosity no longer and breaks into the abandoned and locally shunned building, discovering things that were best left alone.","rating":2,"unique_cover":"A man touches a skeleton lying against a wall.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}