{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d91","title":"The Magic Shop","publish_year":1903,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 25, Iss. 150","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_strand-magazine_1903-06_25_150/page/634/mode/2up","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"the-magic-shop","words":3957,"image":"toysoldiers.jpg","image_alt":"Toy soldiers dressed in 19th century british gear. Graphite filter.","genres":["mystery","gothic","fantasy"],"rating":4,"blurb":"On the floor were magic mirrors; one to draw you out long and thin, one to swell your head and vanish your legs, and one to make you short and fat like a draught; and while we were laughing at these the shopman, as I suppose, came in.","description":"A father is pulled into a magic shop by his son, where the shopman demonstrates tricks that appear less and less like ‘tricks’ and more and more like real magic.","unique_cover":"A suited man with a young boy stand before a leering shopkeeper above a toy tiger and a hand sculpture holding cards.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"mystery","title":"Best of Mystery","collection_type":"genre"}]}