London broadside / 1850 issue
The Black Lantern
Serial pamphlet no. 17

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.

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