Stories with a Vengeance — page 40: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This is a text page from a pulp magazine story titled "The Haunted Hansom" by Howell Davies. It shows Chapter I, containing the opening prose of what appears to be a supernatural or mystery narrative. The narrator, a bachelor living alone in bachelor quarters, introduces himself and begins recounting a strange story that occurred about four years prior in December. The text establishes the narrator's character—a solitary, philosophical man who smokes a pipe—and hints at an unusual occurrence that will form the basis of the tale. No illustrations are visible on this page; it is purely text.