{"_id":"64b76830f870de8dc69628e0","title":"The Thing on the Doorstep","author":"H. P. Lovecraft","code":"the-thing-on-the-doorstep","words":10461,"publish_year":1937,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 29, No. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/weird-tales-v-29-n-01-1937-01/page/52/mode/2up","image":"knocker.jpg","image_alt":"A brass, ring, door knocker. Graphite filter.","genres":["horror","gothic","mystery","fantasy"],"description":"Daniel Upton’s close friend Edward Derby is intelligent, but closeted and naive. After Derby gets married to the daughter of a family rumoured to be involved in the occult, Upton witnesses strange changes in his friend.","blurb":"At first I ignored such references, but in time I began to question him guardedly, remembering what my friend’s daughter had said about Asenath’s hypnotic influence over the other girls at school—the cases where students had thought they were in her body looking across the room at themselves.","rating":5,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"spell","title":"Under a Spell","collection_type":"theme"}]}