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Penumbra [2020]

Country: US
Total Issues: 4 (as at Oct-2024)

"A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism".

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 2020 – present:

(Missing: any after #4, 2023)

Website:   www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/penumbra
Publishers:   Hippocampus Press
Editors:   S. T. Joshi
Frequency:   annual



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Penumbric Speculative Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 15+27=42 (to Aug-2024)

Low-paying online magazine

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-2002 – Dec-2004:

Science Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Jun-2020 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after Aug-2024)

Website: www.penumbric.com

Publishers

Creative Press, Denver, Colorado 80204

Editors

Jeff Georgeson



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The People

Country: UK

Weekly newspaper that published fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Gerald Kersh, who also had a regular column in the 1940s under the name Piers England.

Issues & Index Sources

16-Oct-1881 – 19-Dec-1971

2-Jan-1972 – present, as The Sunday People

Website: www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/sunday-people

Publishers

Odhams Press, London

Frequency

weekly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

People's Five Cent Novelettes

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  1860

Publishers:   J.W. Mange
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The People's Friend

Country: UK
Total Issues: 7711 (to 27-Jan-2018)

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

Issues & Index Sources: 14-Jun-1869 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website:   www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk
Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee; later D.C. Thomson
Editors:   currently Sinclair Matheson
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The People's Friend Story Library

Country: UK

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1970 – ?

Publishers:   D.C. Thomson, Dundee
Formats:   small booklet, 132pp
Frequency:   twice-monthly

People's Home Journal [Peters, 1885]

Country: US
Total Issues: 56

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1890

Publishers:   Peters & Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

People's Home Journal [Lupton, 1885]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1929: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   F.M. Lupton
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust



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People's Illustrated Monthly Telephone

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1881 – Jan-1882: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)

Publishers:   George H. Gilman, Houlton, ME
Formats:   12 x 17¾"
Pagecounts:   8
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The People's Journal [1846]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources

3-Jan-1846 – Jul-1849:

Index to Periodical Literature

Jul-1849 – Jun-1851, as People's and Howitt's Journal:

Index to Periodical Literature

(incorporates Howitt's Journal)

Editors

John Saunders, William Howitt

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

The People's Journal [1858]

Country: UK

A story paper with many serials and short stories, Scottish in flavour.

Issues & Index Sources: 2-Jan-1858 – 1990

Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee, later D.C. Thomson
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   1½d
Frequency:   weekly

People's Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 27

Issues & Index Sources:  1899 – 1901

Publishers:   American News Company
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

People's Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 411

Issues & Index Sources:  1878 – 1889

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

People's Literary Companion

Country: US
Total Issues: 636

Story-paper; contributors include Anne S. Stephens, William Eyster, Prentiss Ingraham.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1869 – Nov-1907:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

E.C. Allen, Augusta, Maine

Formats

large tabloid story paper

Prices

Pagecounts

8pp (16pp last few issues)

Frequency

  Oct-1869 – Sep-1871: monthly
  Oct-1871 – 28-May-1881: weekly
  Jun-1881 – Nov-1907: monthly

Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

People's Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 82+14+39+78+24+42=279

Ran Frank L. Packard's "Jimmy Dale" stories; authors include H. Bedford-Jones, J. Allan Dunn, Harold Lamb, Achmed Abdullah, Perley Poore Sheehan, George Allan England, William Merriam Rouse.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1906 – Dec-1909:

General Fiction Index

Jan-1910 – Jun-1914, as People's Ideal Fiction Magazine:

General Fiction Index

Jul-1914 – Sep-1917, as People's:

General Fiction Index

10-Aug-1917 – 25-Nov-1921, as People's Favorite Magazine:

General Fiction Index

(incomplete)

10-Dec-1921 – 25-Nov-1922, as People's Story Magazine:

General Fiction Index

10-Dec-1922 – 15-Aug-1924, as People's:

General Fiction Index

(incomplete)

#superseded by Complete Stories

Publishers

Street & Smith Publications, Inc.

Editors

  1906 – ?: Archibald L. Sessions
  1909 – 1910: John W. Harding
  ?: Gardner Hunting
  ?: Eugene Clancy

Formats

  Jul-1906 – 25-Jul-1919: standard pulp
  Sep-1919 – Sep-1920: bedsheet
  Oct-1920 – 15-Aug-1924: standard pulp

Prices

  1906 – 1908: 10c
  1908 – 11-Aug-1918: 15c
  25-Aug-1918 – 15-Aug-1924: 20c

Pagecounts

192pp

Frequency

monthly, switched to twice-monthly 10-Aug-1917

Related Sites

The Pulp Magazines Project

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Online Sources

Online Books (4 issues only)



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The People's Penny Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 205

Mostly women's-orientated fiction, usually romantic or mystery. Mostly a serial episode each issue plus one or two stories; title contracted to People's Stories in 1909 (though cover showed it as People's 1d Stories).

Issues & Index Sources

4-May-1906 – 1-Apr-1910:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

8-Apr-1910 – ?, as My Weekly

Publishers

John Leng, London

Formats

digest

Prices

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

weekly