ABSTRACT
Tomb" as a "composite" of "all the exciting and romantic stuff" she had read in the story papers (1929, p. 73).
Mrs. Miller's comments on the process of composing "The Bride of the Tomb" are exciting because they show her deliberate attempts to reconstruct the field of popular publishing at a particular moment in history. With this in mind, it is possible to read the story in order to imagine how the field must have appeared to Mrs. Miller, reading in the early 1880s: what constituted its defining and dominant conventions and story lines, and what does "The Bride of the Tomb," as a "composite" of popular story paper fictions, suggest about the reading interests and preoccupations of story paper audiences?
