The Argosy, Vol. 66 (July–December 1898): Table of Contents

What survives here is not a painted cover but the alphabetical contents page of a bound half-year volume of The Argosy—Frank Munsey's pioneering all-fiction monthly, launched in 1882 and reformatted in 1896 onto cheap wood-pulp paper that gave the pulp magazine its name and its economics. The list reveals the magazine's character: serialized adventure, romantic sketches, travel pieces on the Rhône and Corsica, ghost stories, and psychological tales, contributed by writers including Isabella Fyvie Mayo and Lindon Meadows. No lurid painted cover survives in this image, but the page itself is a primary document—the moment before genre hardened, when sensation fiction, weird tales, and foreign adventure shared columns without taxonomy.