Salisbury Square print / one penny / lurid fiction
The Black Lantern Night Extra One Penny
A lurid broadside of alley ash, rooming-house whispers, and midnight bargains.
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Printed on yellowed pulp with a hard black frame and one blood-red signal, the page behaves like a street cry.
Wood-type lure / engraved fright / newsstand bait
Black frame / blood-red hit / pulp ground
Cheap horror for the newly literate