{"_id":"656bfe70bf362617afe4be56","title":"The Treader of the Dust","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"the-treader-of-the-dust","publish_year":1935,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 26, No. 2","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV26N02193508/page/n97/mode/2up","words":3114,"image":"tome.jpg","image_alt":"A splayed open book. Graphite filter","genres":["fantasy","gothic"],"description":"A man runs away from his house after being disturbed by the contents of an old book. On returning, his servant is missing.","blurb":"Dust lay everywhere: a fine gray dust like a powder of dead atoms. It had covered his manuscripts with a deep film, it had settled thickly upon the chairs, the lamp-shades, the volumes; and the rich poppy-like reds and yellows of the oriental rugs were bedimmed by its accumulation.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}