Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 46 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page shows the opening of a short story titled "Disaster Snare" by Stanley Crawford. It features an illustration depicting a man in formal attire and a woman near a damaged automobile in an urban setting, with a menacing shadowy figure looming above them. The visible prose describes mysterious shrieks disturbing the night in Hamilton Square, with neighbors awakening in nearby apartment houses to investigate the disturbance. The subtitle notes that investigator Phil Hart must use himself as bait to trap a tarantula in its own web.
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