Issues & Index Sources:  1994? – 2006?

Publishers:   1880 Hill Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90041 (in 2002)
Editors:   Pam McCully & Kathryn Morrison (in 2002)
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

In-house magazine of the J. Lyons company which ran several short stories by Edgar Wallace (and others) as well as articles by Arthur Machen.

A separate "Forces edition" was published during World War II.

Small press sf/fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1936 – Jul-1936?:

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Gordon Associates
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Published twice annually, each issue contains a mix of mystery and horror.

Young women's story paper.

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Amateur magazine. The first issue had 2 stories and a longish poems, as well as 2 articles and a batch of departments.

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  2002 – 2004:

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Publishers:   Allegra Press, Singapore
Editors:   Christina Sng
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   20

Fanzine, a collection of text horror stories with illustrations by Don Rico.

Glossy American-Spanish co-production featuring nude girls and fiction by Ed Morrison, Dick Pickering and others.

MacKill's Mystery Magazine was primarily a reprint magazine, and ran for 22 monthly issues from September 1952 to June 1954. Each issue featured a story in Roy Vickers' "Department of Dead Ends" series, as well as other classic reprints from authors like Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen.

The title was changed on the cover only to MacKill's for the last four issues.

Some, or all, of the issues were also distributed in the US, initially just with an overprinted price, but after April 1953 with specific US editions with the same volume/issue number but different cover dates.

US reprint edition of MacKill's Mystery Magazine (US). Initially these were just the UK editions with an overprinted price, but no issue was published in March 1953 and from April 1953 on there were specific US editions with the same volume/issue number but different cover dates (and, occasionally, different cover art).

The title was changed on the cover only to MacKill's for the last five issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1930:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Pocket Magazine Co., 1860 Broadway, NY
Formats:   paperback
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Began as a mainly reprint publication, but soon featured new fiction by Canadian writers (e.g. Robert W. Service's "The Trail of '98" was serialized, 1911); authors included Gilbert Parker, Arthur Stringer, Alan Sullivan, Stephen Leacock, Thomas Head Raddall; it also became an important market for American fiction writers in the 1930s, 1940s and the early 1950s: US authors included Talbot Mundy, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ray Bradbury. By the late 1950s fiction was becoming rarer and the last fiction was published in 1960 or thereabouts.

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The first of the literary shilling monthlies; though it never quite matched The Cornhill in the quality of its fiction it still published such memorable serials as "The Water-Babies" Kingsley (1862-3), "The Portrait of a Lady" James (1880-1), "The Woodlanders" Hardy (1886 - 1887). Other authors include R.D. Blackmore, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Oliphant, W. Clark Russell, Charlotte M. Yonge.

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