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library.forgemesh.io Horror Tales Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io 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 13 public-domain horror books (e.g. Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Horror tales — 148 public-domain books including Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Dracula. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 13 (or up to 50 if limit is set) public-domain horror books, including titles like Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, along with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of each book. No authentication or license is required.
Example use cases
Horror book app content seeding
“I'm building a horror reading app and need a ranked list of classic public-domain horror novels — grab up to 20 titles with their drill-down routes so I can load them into my content database.”
Literary research on horror genre origins
“I'm researching the origins of horror fiction — can you pull the full list of classic public-domain horror books available, including things like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde?”
Classroom horror reading list
“I need a curated list of famous horror stories my students can read for free — pull the top 13 public-domain horror titles so I can assign them without any licensing issues.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/horror-talesWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain horror fiction classics without any API key or licensing overhead. It is ideal for agents that need to surface canonical horror titles quickly, build reading lists, seed content databases, or provide drill-down access to full text — especially when the user specifically wants horror or gothic horror content rather than a broader fiction catalog.
Side effects
- Exceeding max limit of 50 returns an error or capped result
- Invalid limit type (non-integer) may cause a 400 bad request
- Payment failure via x402 protocol results in 402 Payment Required with no data returned
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error with no book list
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": "Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus",
"author": "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft",
"book_id": 84,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 75458
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Horror tales",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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