{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5dd4","title":"Xeethra","publish_year":1934,"publish_source":"Weird Tales","publish_edition":"Vol. 24, No. 6","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v24n06_1934-12_sas/page/n71/mode/2up","author":"Clark Ashton Smith","code":"xeethra","words":7394,"image":"crown.jpg","image_alt":"A crystal crown sitting on a round, cloth-covered table. Graphite filter.","genres":["fantasy","adventure","gothic"],"blurb":"“These things were illusions, designed to lead you astray; and the cave, I wot, was no honest cave but an entrance into hell.”","description":"A young goat shepherd discovers a mysterious cave which leads to a strange land he doesn’t recognise. But after eating a dark-red fruit from one of the local trees, he has visions of a different life as a king of some mystical, far-away land.","rating":5,"unique_cover":"Drawing of a young boy in front of a strange tree thick with leaves. Nearby are strange looking beings.","cover_position":"left","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}