# free-books-horror-tales

> free-books-horror-tales is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Browse and download free public-domain horror tales books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with epub/txt/html links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/horror-tales
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-horror-tales-390164dc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Y_i7n7vm4Epz463_YBQfK

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability free-books-horror-tales-390164dc
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a list of free public-domain horror tales I can download — show me the most popular ones available as epub or txt files?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of free public-domain horror fiction with direct download links, especially when you want results ranked by relevance and popularity. Prefer this over scraping Project Gutenberg directly when you need structured metadata and multi-source aggregation (Gutenberg + Internet Archive) in a single call. Best for agents building reading lists, literary research tools, or book recommendation features focused on horror genre classic literature.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if keyword filter is too specific or misspelled
- Empty catalogue page if page number exceeds available results
- Stale download links if a source (Project Gutenberg / Internet Archive) has restructured URLs between daily re-verification cycles
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per call fee
- Rate limiting or service unavailability from upstream catalogue sources

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Horror tales": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (196 in Project Gutenberg alone, plus Internet Archive scans), ranked by relevance and popularity, with direct epub/txt/html download links. Add words to narrow by title or author. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.

## Output

A ranked list (up to 20 per page) of public-domain horror tale books including title, author, Library of Congress subject tags, popularity/relevance scores, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. The catalogue is re-verified daily and draws from ~196+ Project Gutenberg titles plus Internet Archive scans.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-horror-tales-390164dc/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from intel.rallylive.ca](https://www.zero.xyz/host/intel.rallylive.ca/llms.txt)