{"_id":"67f61b5a34673632d73e2923","title":"The Parasitic Hand","author":"Anthony M. Rud","code":"the-parasitic-hand","publish_year":1926,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 8, No. 5","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV08N05192611/page/n43/mode/2up","words":3165,"image":"hand.jpg","image_alt":"A hand. Graphite filter","genres":["sci-fi","horror","gothic"],"description":"A man comes to Dr. Burnstrum saying that the extra hand that had been attached to him since birth has started to grow.","blurb":"“Doctor! Do you—do you suppose that the personality, the soul, of the other twin is still intact and is now trying to establish itself in this growing hand?”","rating":4,"unique_cover":"A nurse is grabbed by a hairy third arm sprouting from a patient's chest as a doctor looks on.","cover_position":"left","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}