{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5dce","title":"The Wedding-Knell","publish_year":1851,"author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"the-wedding-knell","words":3208,"image":"bell.jpg","image_alt":"A bell hanging above a church. Graphite filter.","genres":["gothic","horror"],"blurb":"But so many weddings have been ushered in with the merriest peal of the bells, and yet turned out unhappily, that I shall hope for better fortune under such different auspices.","description":"After marrying two others first, a woman marries a man that has waited for her since their youth. But upon turning up to the church a funeral knell rings instead of a wedding peal.","rating":3,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}