Pulp Fiction, 1939 · page 79 of 116
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# "Satan's Shackles" by Leon Dupont This is the opening page of a short story from a pulp magazine. The page includes a dramatic woodcut-style illustration depicting two dark, demonic figures in what appears to be an interior setting, along with the story's title, author attribution, and the beginning of the prose narrative. The text introduces two brothers named Fenton who have harbored intense mutual hatred for ten years, living together in a gray house. The story suggests that a spring day and warm sunshine will somehow enable or trigger a significant event—though what occurs remains unclear from this opening passage alone.
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They were locked by destiny and separated by hate, these two breihers whose only kinship was... . tae a2 + 4 oe ar By Leon Dupont Author of “Slaughter Epidemic,” etc. OR TEN long years stark hate had hovered like a sinister black pall over the grim gray house wherein lived the two brothers fen- ton. Though the soft sun of a late spring was shining warmly on the day that was to bring Aaron Fenton’s 77 death, the pall never lifted. The hate that filled that house was too utterly savage and long-standing to be light- ened by any such physical trifle as a spring sun. Ironically enough, it was the very presence of that warm sunshine which was to make it possible for the COMMICLOO C cS (GO)