{"_id":"69bce44c75d56fcc7b0eabf6","title":"The Story of the Siren","author":"E. M. Forster","code":"the-story-of-the-siren","publish_year":1920,"publish_source":"The Story of the Siren (Chapbook)","publish_scan":"https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/storyofsiren00forsuoft/storyofsiren00forsuoft.pdf","words":3125,"image":"beach.jpg","image_alt":"The beach. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy","horror"],"description":"A man listens to the story of a boatman with a strange affinity for the sea, who tells of how his brother met the siren.","blurb":"“We put him to bed, though he was not ill. The doctor came, and took money, and the priest came and spattered him with holy water. But it was no good. He was too big—like a piece of the sea. He kissed the thumb-bones of San Biagio and they never dried till evening.”","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}