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True Story [Vol. 26 No. 2, March 1932] (True Story Publishing Corporation, 25¢, 208pp, cover by Jules Cannert) []
Details supplied by Steve Scott.

4 · Stranger Than Fiction: When I Died · [uncredited] · ts

6 · Home Problems Forum · [uncredited] · qa

8 · 10,000 Prizes for Opinions of the New True Story · [uncredited] · cn

11 · Playing with Romance · Bernarr Macfadden · ed

13 · Mirror of Beauty and Fashion · Various · pi

19 · Too Good for Her · [uncredited] · ts

22 · Wild Blood · [uncredited] · ts

26 · Devil Driven · [uncredited] · ts

29 · I Thought I Was in the Way · [uncredited] · ts

29 · It All Began with a Pick-up · [uncredited] · ts

32 · The Woman Who Refused to Love · [uncredited] · ts

35 · Inside the Heart of a Killer [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

42 · The Secret I Had to Keep from My Children · [uncredited] · ts

45 · My Strange Bargain with My Husband · [uncredited] · ts

49 · On the Edge of the Abyss · [uncredited] · ts

50 · The Light That Came with Darkness · [uncredited] · ts

54 · Proud Woman [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

59 · Married Flirt · [uncredited] · ts

63 · Night of Horror · [uncredited] · ts

66 · I Paid the Price of His Unfaithfulness · [uncredited] · ts

68 · Was This Love a Sin? [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

73 · Handy Household Hints · [uncredited] · cl

74 · What Every Mother Should Know · Priscilla Hicks · cl

186 · $10,000.00 True Story Prize Contest · [uncredited] · ms

204 · Laughs from Life · Various · hu

206 · Mary and Bob Announce New True Story Radio Hour · [uncredited] · ms

True Story [Volume 31 No. 6, January 1935] (True Story Publishing Corporation, 15¢, 130pp, cover by A. Mozert) []
Details supplied by Steve Scott.

4 · The Power of Friendship · Mrs. Frederic M. Paist · ar

6 · Home Problems Forum · The Readers · qa

8 · Your Favorite Screen Stars: Claire Dodd · [uncredited] · bg [Ref. Claire Dodd]

10 · Stranger Than Fiction: Dead Man’s Blood · [uncredited] · ts

12 · What Do You Think? · The Readers · lc

16 · To Your Unconquerable Soul · Bernarr Macfadden · ed

17 · Inside the Soul of a Shame Woman · [uncredited] · ts; a $2,500.00 Prize Story; given as “Inside the Soul of a Shame Women” on the story itself.

20 · No Greater Love · Warden Lewis E. Lawes · ts

24 · The Secret Locked in My Husband’s Heart · [uncredited] · ts

27 · My Mother’s Man · [uncredited] · ts

30 · Three Ring Girl [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

34 · A House Divided · [uncredited] · ts

38 · Easy to Get · [uncredited] · ts

40 · Spoilers of Women [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

42 · Ne’er-Do-Well · [uncredited] · ts; subtitled “A Tale of Love’s Magic Power”.

47 · Lovers Must Trust · [uncredited] · ts

50 · Stylish and Economical · [uncredited] · ms

51 · Holy Mackerel · [uncredited] · ts

54 · Home Dyeing · Helen Davis · ar

58 · True Story Magazine’s Shopping Service · [uncredited] · ms

80 · The Making of Self-Reliant Children · Virginia Marsden · ar

90 · Crackers for All Occasions · Luella Farmer · ms

98 · It’s Open Season for Parties · Ruth Phillips · ms

117 · To Stir the Flagging Appetite · Martha Holmes · ms

123 · $10,000.00 for Your True Stories · [uncredited] · cn

127 · $1,000.00 Songs of Romance Cash Prize Contest · [uncredited] · cn

True Story [Volume 40 Number 2, March 1939] ed. Bernarr Macfadden (Macfadden Publications, 15¢, 158pp, quarto) []

4 · America’s Disgrace · Dr. Mary Halton · ms

6 · With God as My Partner · [uncredited] · ts

8 · A Debt Is Paid · [uncredited] · ts

10 · What Do You Think? · The Readers · lc

11 · About This Month’s Cover Girl · [uncredited] · ms

12 · “I’ll Never Forget” · [uncredited] · ms

14 · Cuckoo Cooking! · [uncredited] · ms

16 · Love’s Bewildering Delights · Bernarr Macfadden · ed

19 · Moment of Treachery · [uncredited] · ts

22 · It’s Tough to Be a Hollywood Mother · Joan Blondell · ar

24 · I Was Only Looking for Love · [uncredited] · ts

28 · My Letter Was Answered · [uncredited] · ts

30 · Kept Husband · Enzo Fiermonte · bg

32 · Did I Fail as a Woman? · [uncredited] · ts

34 · His People Were My People [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · ts

36 · Clergyman’s Wife · [uncredited] · ts

40 · My Price of Freedom · [uncredited] · ts

42 · I Was an Adopted Mother · [uncredited] · ts

44 · Woman of Alaska · [uncredited] · ts

46 · Strange Reunion · [uncredited] · ts

48 · Gambler’s Hell [Part ? of ?] · Warden Lawes · ts

70 · You Can Make Them Yourself · [uncredited] · ms

79 · The National Whatsit · [uncredited] · ms

84 · Whatsit Prize Winners · [uncredited] · ms

112 · Home Problems Forum · Various · cl

114 · So—You Want to Be a Cook? · Phoebe Dane · ms

117 · How Do You Wash Dishes? · Martha Holmes · ms

118 · Needlework Can Give That Certain Touch of Brightness · Baroness Piantoni · ms

119 · A House to Grow with You · Helen Foster · ms

120 · Just Look Around · Marion Randall · ms

121 · Clothes Make the Child · Nell Howard Enloe · ms

154 · $25,000 in Cash Prizes for Stories You Can Write · [uncredited] · ms

True Story Magazine (UK) (about)
UK version of the US True Story, which was the first of the so-called “confessions” magazines. Stories were purportedly true and hence were uncredited. An unusual feature of the magazine is that each story is prefixed by a “Reading Time” - to the nearest second!

True Story Magazine [#11, September 1923] (Hutchinson, 1/-, 160pp, standard) []
Details supplied by Mike Ashley.

7 · “I’m So Sorry!” · Bernarr MacFadden · ed

9 · Confessions of a Selfish Wife · [uncredited] · ts

21 · Babs, Her Story · [uncredited] · ts

25 · Duty or Death? · [uncredited] · ts

26 · All for Love · [uncredited] · ts True Story June 1923

30 · The Ghurka Knife · [uncredited] · ts

37 · The Clever Devil · [uncredited] · ts

39 · Ways That Are Dark [Part 1 of 2] · [uncredited] · ts True Story July 1923

48 · Mismated · [uncredited] · ts True Story June 1923

59 · The Adventures of an International Spy · [uncredited] · ts

69 · “The World is Like That!” · [uncredited] · ts

77 · The Great Sacrifice · [uncredited] · ts

91 · The Youthful Mrs. Perrot · [uncredited] · ar

96 · The Potion · [uncredited] · ts True Story July 1923

101 · The Moving Finger · [uncredited] · ts True Story July 1923

110 · A Red Night · [uncredited] · ts

115 · On a Bridge at Midnight · [uncredited] · ts True Story June 1923

125 · My Friend’s Wife · [uncredited] · ts True Story July 1923

135 · Her Fight for a Husband · [uncredited] · ts

145 · An Awful Little Devil · [uncredited] · ts

150 · Over the Precipice · [uncredited] · ts

152 · Death and “Mrs. Crump” · [uncredited] · ts

True Story Magazine [#125, April 1933] (MacFadden Magazines, 6d, 72pp, quarto) []
Details supplied by Mike Ashley.

5 · Dynamic Health in Romance · Bernarr MacFadden · ed

9 · Because She Wanted Children · [uncredited] · ts

14 · His Slave Woman · [uncredited] · ts

19 · I Wanted to Be Free [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · sl

22 · I Was a Child Wife · [uncredited] · ts

26 · The Man I Sent Away · [uncredited] · ts

31 · Too Easy for Him · [uncredited] · ts

True Story Magazine [#127, June 1933] (MacFadden Magazines, 6d, 72pp, quarto) []
Details supplied by Mike Ashley.

5 · Love Never Grows Old · Bernarr MacFadden · ed

9 · The Road to Madness · [uncredited] · ts

17 · Gossip Started It All · [uncredited] · ts

21 · Ashamed of His In-Laws · [uncredited] · ts

23 · The Mystery of the Woman I Loved · [uncredited] · ts

26 · Last Will and Testament · [uncredited] · ts

28 · I Wanted to Be Free [Part ? of ?] · [uncredited] · sl

30 · Up from the Swamps · [uncredited] · ts

True Story Magazine [No. 315, February 1949] (The Argus Press, 1/-, 48pp, 10.7″ x 7.5″) []

2 · You Must Have a Dream · [uncredited] · ss

6 · The Barometer of Love · [uncredited] · ss

10 · When Love Comes Twice [Part ? of ] · [uncredited] · sl

15 · Kiss Me Good-bye · [uncredited] · ss

18 · The Pilot’s Special Guest · [uncredited] · ss

23 · Film Notes · [uncredited] · cl

26 · Essential for Good Cooking · Ann Rawlinson, L.C.A. · ms

28 · Not-so-Young Mother · Joan Littlewood · cl

30 · I’ll Never Forget · The Readers · lt

True Strange Stories (1929) (about)

Publishers:

True Strange Stories Publishing Co., Inc.: True Strange Stories.

Editors:

Webster Scofield - Editor: True Strange Stories.

True Strange Stories [v1 #1, March 1929] (25¢, 96pp+, large, cover by Delos Palmer) []

17 · A Destiny Stronger than Love Claimed My Bride · Pierre Bernard; as told to Sylvia B. Saltzberg · ss

22 · The First Time That I Died · Heinrich Meyer; as told to Mildred Hardenbergh · ss

26 · The Mad Mystic and the American Beauty [Part 1 of 7] · Alice Gregory Stafford; as told to Franklin Holt · n.

30 · I Had a Fortune on My Back · Peter Durvant; as told to Kenneth Holmes · ss

32 · Two Fierce Spirits Warred Within His Soul · Alan Hynd · ss

36 · The Love That Lost a Throne [Part 1 of 2] · Hugo Leibnitz; as told to Henry Lieferant · nv

40 · His Night of Vengeance · Jack MacLeod · ss

42 · The Bleeding Mummy [Part 1 of 4] · F. M. Pettee · na

46 · The Crime That Lured Him Back · Clint Stetson; as told to Ben Conlon · ss

49 · The Amazing Case of Phineas P. Gage · L. L. Henson, Jr. · ar

50 · The State Electrocuted Me and Yet I Live · Antonio Sforza; as told to Marshall P. Thompson · ss

54 · The Freak They Bought Four Times · B. M. Warren, Dr.; as told to Stuart Palmer · ss

60 · Cursed by a Voodoo King · Ramon Llado; as told to Ben Conlon · ss

True Strange Stories [v1 #2, April 1929] (25¢, 96pp+, large, cover by Doris Stanley) []

18 · Exploits of Jacques Lebaudy—Emperor of the Sahara · W. H. Curley · ss; given as by W.H. Corley in the Table of Contents.

22 · Is She Mine?—The Unbelievable Ordeal of a War Hero · Lowell Ames Norris · ss

26 · Another Man Who Would Be King · George Wotherspoon · ss

28 · The Mad Mystic and the American Beauty [Part 2 of 7] · Alice Gregory Stafford; as told to Franklin Holt · n.

32 · The Shark-Man · Henry Brenner · ss

34 · Lighted to His Doom · Leslie McFarlane · ss; given as by Leslie MacFarlane on the story itself.

38 · I Turned Traitor to Save My Country · Paul Mainau · ss

42 · The Glittering Curse of the Kohinoor · David Clarallan · ar

45 · An Untold Adventure of Charlie Chaplin · [uncredited] · vi

46 · The Tryst He Kept Too Late · Edward E. Schiff · ss

49 · The Open Door · E. W. Hutter · ss

50 · The Love That Lost a Throne [Part 2 of 2] · Hugo Leibnitz; as told to Henry Lieferant · nv

54 · The Cop Who Wouldn’t Quit · Frank M. Lane; as told to Theodore Orchards · ss

56 · The Bleeding Mummy [Part 2 of 4] · F. M. Pettee · na

True Strange Stories [v1 #3, May 1929] (25¢, 96pp+, large, cover by R. A. Cameron) []

18 · Why I Am Called a Witch · Madeline Grover; as told to Walter B. Gibson · ss

22 · Doomed to Be Dead as Long as He Lives · Mildred Morris · ss

26 · Hollywood’s Cinderella Man · Don Ryan · ar

28 · The Wolf-Child of the Hills · Ira Washington Bird · ss

32 · The Mad Mystic and the American Beauty [Part 3 of 7] · Alice Gregory Stafford; as told to Franklin Holt · n.

38 · The Bleeding Mummy [Part 3 of 4] · F. M. Pettee · na

42 · How I Get Paid for Being a Pest · Frank Libose · ss

45 · My Day of Madness · John L. Spivak · ss

50 · The Incredible Story of a Crook by Accident · George Wotherspoon · ss

54 · Strange Ways of Making a Living · Ethel Waters · ar

56 · Three Times in the Shadow of the Gallows · Robert Brannon · ar

58 · The Curious Disappearance of Winthrop Leale · Walter Russell; as told to Preston Langley Hickey · ss

62 · The Strangest Suicide in the World · Richard F. Williamson · ss

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