A complete issue · 400 pages · 1865
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A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1865 — all 400 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 400 pages · 1865
Edited by Mrs. Henry Wood. Published by Richard Bentley & Son, London. This issue contains the serialized novel Mrs. Raven's Temptation, illustrated by Robert Barnes, detailing a mystery centered on the Raven family of Ravenstoke. The narrative opens when a plainly-dressed young woman, Alice Cleare, arrives by train seeking lodging and a letter. She encounters an acute-looking gentleman at the White Hart inn; conversations with the landlord reveal details of the local gentry: the late Squire Raven has recently died, leaving his estate to his elder son Leonard (described as delicate and scholarly) while his younger son Frank inherits nothing until their mother's death—an arrangement the villagers find questionable. The plot involves inheritance disputes, family tensions, and mysterious circumstances surrounding the Raven household. The volume additionally contains serialized fiction In the Black Forest by Charles W. Wood with thirty-five illustrations, Johnny Ludlow's Papers (including "A Mystery"), stories by Georgiana M. Craik and Charles Hervey, and numerous poems by contributors including Fanny Forrester, Sydney Grey, and others, spanning domestic, sentimental, and adventure narratives typical of Victorian periodical literature.
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