{"_id":"6378a90af4debc21ae8a3718","title":"The Stranger","author":"Ambrose Bierce","code":"the-stranger","words":1906,"publish_year":1909,"publish_source":"Cosmopolitan","image":"fire.jpg","image_alt":"A wooden fire. Graphite filter.","genres":["gothic"],"blurb":"A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.","description":"A stranger appears at a campfire far out in the ‘Wild West’ and tells a story of his band of travellers being ambushed by an Apache band.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}