{"_id":"65192d9690b5794849fe230d","title":"The Oblong Box","author":"Edgar Allan Poe","code":"the-oblong-box","publish_year":1844,"publish_source":"The Dollar Newspaper","words":4565,"image":"ship.jpg","image_alt":"A wooden, five-masted sailing ship on the sea. Graphite filter.","genres":["mystery","gothic"],"description":"While perusing the list of other passengers on a voyage to New York, a man notes that his friend, his friend is to take the boat along with his two sisters and wife. But for some reason, they have booked enough rooms for six.","blurb":"They were sounds occasioned by the artist in prying open the oblong box, by means of a chisel and mallet- the latter being apparently muffled, or deadened, by some soft woollen or cotton substance in which its head was enveloped.","rating":3,"unique_cover":"Wood engraving of man over a wooden box on a ship.","cover_source":"Douglas Percy","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}