{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e2f","title":"The Moon-Bog","publish_year":1926,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 7, No. 6","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV07N06192606/page/n85/mode/2up","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","code":"the-moon-bog","words":3416,"image":"moon.jpg","image_alt":"The full moon. Graphite filter","genres":["gothic","horror"],"description":"The narrator meets his friend Denys Barry, who has bought back and restored an ancestral castle in Ireland. He has ambitions to clear away a nearby bog from his new lands but the locals refuse to help him, citing tales of a curse.","blurb":"There were tales of dancing lights in the dark of the moon, and of chill winds when the night was warm; of wraiths in white hovering over the waters, and of an imagined city of stone deep down below the swampy surface.","rating":3,"unique_cover":"Drawing of a man watching a bridge of light in the sky with a human silhouette inside. The bridge emanates from a caslte in the distance.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}