{"_id":"64080af28bbfb36fa449e849","title":"The Last Incantation","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-last-incantation","publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 15, No. 6","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV15N06193006/page/n63/mode/2up","words":1923,"publish_year":1930,"image":"braids.jpg","image_alt":"A cloaked woman touching a tree in the sun. Graphite filter.","genres":["fantasy","gothic","literary"],"blurb":"But, though these things and the power they held or symbolized were the terror of the peoples and the envy, of all rival magicians, the thoughts of Malygris were dark with immitigable melancholy, and weariness filled his heart as ashes fill the hearth where a great fire has died.","description":"An old and powerful magician thinks back to his youth, and of the young lover he once lost. He wonders if he, in all his power, could bring her back.","rating":5,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"},{"code":"romance","title":"A Short Romance","collection_type":"theme"},{"code":"fantasy","title":"Best of Fantasy","collection_type":"genre"}]}