Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 9 of 116
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# Analysis This is the **opening page of a pulp fiction story** titled "The Corpse at the Carnival" by Dwight V. Babcock. The page features an illustration showing a menacing creature or demon head alongside figures at what appears to be a carnival setting, with a building in the background. The visible text introduces Chapter I, "Death on the Dragon Slide," establishing a mystery plot: a character named Chris Millard observes crowds at a beach resort amusement pier. The page's teaser promises that death occurred on a carnival ride called the Dragon Slide, and that an investigator named Millard discovered his love interest was involved in this fatal incident. The prose emphasizes atmospheric foreboding appropriate to the mystery-horror genre.
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The Corpse at the Carnival By Dwight V. Babcock Author of “The Jitterbug Murder,” ete. Suddenly the festive beach resort became frozen with foreboding. For Death rode the Dragon Slide that night. And Investigator Mitl- ard discovered that tke girl he loved was coasting on the slippery track of Satan’s juggernaut. a RS hen ee CHAPTER I DEATH ON THE DRAGON SLIDE HRIS MILLARD leaned against the bar in a doorless beer hall on Ocean Front and looked out at the passersby. The throngs moving along the boardwalk were like the shifting waters of a churning river, flowing toward the entrance to the amusement pier, moy- COMmmicooOokS Conn