{"_id":"65c4ddaaafbd2d2d94e130b0","title":"The Ninth Skeleton","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-ninth-skeleton","publish_year":1928,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 12, No. 3","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v12n03_1928-09/page/n75/mode/2up","words":1847,"image":"grave.jpg","image_alt":"A round gravestone in the grass. Graphite filter","genres":["horror","gothic","fantasy"],"description":"On the way to meet with his lover in ridge of pines, a man finds the sky and the trees turning grotesque, and footprints too slender to be human.","blurb":"All was airless and silent; there were no birds, no insects, no sighing of the pines, no lisping of leaves: a baleful and preternatural silence, like the silence of the infinite void.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}