# Library ForgeMesh — American Horror Tales Shelf

> 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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/horror-tales-american
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-american-horror-tales-shelf-9915db7d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_iBHNmZJumfwrwHiOtIWtu

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 library-forgemesh-american-horror-tales-shelf-9915db7d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the public-domain American horror shelf on ForgeMesh and show me the top 8 books available, including classics like Poe and The King in Yellow?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "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"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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