{"_id":"6311e5212d0c4242f7d7425b","title":"The Horrible","author":"Guy de Maupassant","code":"the-horrible","words":2091,"image":"war.jpg","publish_year":1884,"publish_source":"Le Gaulois","publish_edition":"Ser. 3, No. 671","publish_scan":"https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5250187","image_alt":"Eight soldiers with rifles on a beach facing an explosion","genres":["horror","war","gothic"],"blurb":"In order that we should experience horror, something more is needed than emotion, something more than the spectacle of a dreadful death; there must be a shuddering sense of mystery, or a sensation of abnormal terror, more than natural.","description":"In response to his men talking of a terrible accident, a general tells two stories to exemplify what real horror is.","rating":4,"original_language":"French","translators":["Albert M. C. McMaster","A. E. Henderson","MME. Quesada","Others"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"horror","title":"Best of Horror","collection_type":"genre"}]}