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Library ForgeMesh — American Horror Tales Shelf
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Library ForgeMesh — American Horror Tales Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain American horror books (e.g. Poe, The King in Yellow) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Horror tales, American — 8 public-domain books including The Masque of the Red Death, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2, The King in Yellow. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of public-domain American horror books (up to 50 entries by default 20), each with metadata and drill-down routes for retrieving the full text. Includes titles such as The Masque of the Red Death, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 2, and The King in Yellow.
Example use cases
Curating a horror reading list
“I'm putting together a classic horror reading list — can you fetch me the top 10 public-domain American horror books from ForgeMesh's horror shelf so I can see what's available?”
Finding Poe works for free
“I want to read The Works of Edgar Allan Poe for free — can you check the ForgeMesh American horror shelf and grab a list of all the Poe titles they have with links to the full text?”
Building a horror literature dataset
“I need a ranked list of all public-domain American horror books I can legally use in a dataset — can you pull the full shelf from ForgeMesh, up to 50 titles, with their drill-down routes?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/horror-tales-americanWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain American horror literature specifically — particularly classic authors like Poe or titles like The King in Yellow — without needing an API key or worrying about copyright. Prefer over a generic search when you want pre-ranked, editorially curated results for the American horror genre specifically.
Side effects
- Exceeding limit of 50 returns an error or is capped
- Invalid limit parameter type (non-integer) may cause a 400 error
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Shelf may return fewer than requested if corpus has fewer matching titles
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "The Masque of the Red Death",
"author": "Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849",
"book_id": 1064,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 5793
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Horror tales, American",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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