Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 97 of 116
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# Analysis of This Page This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine featuring the opening of "Sharpshooter—Without Bullets" by Paul Adams. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing a silhouetted figure with a rifle amid what appears to be taxidermied animals. The story, which begins mid-page, introduces Captain Roger Norvale, a skilled big-game hunter who arrives at a remote train station called Valley Junction and experiences an unusual sense of foreboding. The narrative establishes that Norvale will face an unnamed killer without access to firearms or ammunition, setting up the story's central premise.
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Sharpshooter— Captain Roger Norvale, big-game hunier, was a dead shot. But he was lured among the harmless, stuffed figures of his jungle trophies to face a stalking killer—without powder and bullets. a strange feeling of disqui- etude as he stepped from the train. Even when stalking big game in the denseness of the tropical jungle, he had never been aware of the pre- cise sensation of foreboding that now assailed him. The train had hardly stopped to al- low him to descend to the darkness of the deserted platform before the con- ductor waved his lantern. It pulled out of the station, leaving him in solitude. R”:: NORVALE experienced 95 Author of “The Devil’s Coronet,” ete, ‘ithout Bullets By Paul Adams o> Valley Junction was one of those stations that are marked with an as- terisk in the time tables; a footnote explaining the asterisk toe the effect that: “Train stops to discharge pas- sengers only.” Uncultivated land, thickly over- grown with rank grass, stretched on both sides. To the west a dirt road led along an upward slope of the terrain to the low hill upon which sat the estate of Donald Westen. Norvale, in the infrequent periods . - pw Dy Pl ee tee ell Rg Aegee -c€omicbooks.co Ley * et Nd OLD LTT yy ib rhe iy Pi viel 2,, é COT yaa ] 5! ne, , (at OPT PONE ee Me Bo on f uty se , , Was Tae 1 ; \ 1 teu