A complete issue · 82 pages · 1876
The Argosy, Vol. 21
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1876 — all 82 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 82 pages · 1876
This installment of Mrs. Henry Wood's serial novel Edina depicts a domestic crisis triggered by a death at the Bottomless Shaft mining site. Rosaline Bell, deeply traumatized after witnessing a man fall into the shaft, arrives home in hysterical terror. Her mother Mrs. Bell and visiting neighbor Nancy Tomson initially mistake her distress for supernatural fear—specifically, an encounter with the "Seven Whistlers," a local omen of death. Frank Raynor, who was with Rosaline at the fatal moment, departs the scene shaken and discovers Mr. Blase Pellet mysteriously examining the shaft afterward. Frank arrives late to an evening engagement with Edina, visibly distressed. The narrative interweaves domestic realism with elements of working-class superstition and the consequences of a tragic accident that promises to upend multiple characters' futures.
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