{"_id":"665a9d8760f40c35f8c50c52","title":"The Seed from the Sepulchre","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-seed-from-the-sepulchre","words":4529,"image":"crocus.jpg","image_alt":"Small blossoming flowers in the ground. Graphite filter.","publish_year":1933,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 22, No. 4","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v22n04_1933-10/page/n97/mode/2up","genres":["fantasy","horror","adventure"],"blurb":"He was startled to find, amid the thick disheveled hair, a hard and pointed lump which resembled the tip of a beginning horn, rising under the still-unbroken skin. As if endowed with erectile and resistless life, it seemed to grow beneath his fingers.","description":"An explorer's partner is oddly quiet and morose after returning from a three day expedition of which he has nothing to report, and as the journey goes on he becomes sicker and sicker until something mysterious appears growing out of the top of his head.","rating":4,"unique_cover":"Two men on a small wooden boat in a river. One has branches sprouding from his head.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"spell","title":"Under a Spell","collection_type":"theme"}]}