One of the rarest "crime pulps", Cabaret Stories seems to have been
an early attempt at a gangster pulp and is believed to have run for
eight issues.
| 1928 |
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v1 #1
Aug |
v1 #2
Sep |
v1 #3
Oct |
v1 #4
Nov |
v1 #5
Dec |
| 1929 |
v1 #6
Jan |
v1 #7
Feb |
v1 #8
Mar |
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A short-lived "spicy" detective pulp that only lasted for three issues.
| 1938 |
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v1 #1
Nov |
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| 1939 |
v1 #2
Jan |
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v1 #3
Mar |
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A short-lived attempt to revive the popular Hawaiian sleuth created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925.
| 1973 |
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v1 #1
Nov |
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| 1974 |
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v1 #2
Feb |
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v1 #3
May |
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v1 #4
Aug |
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A short-lived mystery digest that never lived up to its initial promise.
| 1964 |
v1 #1
Jan |
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v1 #2
May |
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v1 #3
Sep |
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Very little is known about this title which seems to be a one-shot pulp
launched by H.C. Blackerby who also launched another one-shot detective
pulp, Gem Detective, and a one-shot western pulp called Prize
Western at the same time. The title was later
used by Frank Communale for a true crime magazine in the 1950s.
| 1946 |
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v1 #1
Winter |
Very little is known about this title which seems to be a one-shot pulp published
by the Canadian publisher Norman Book Company reprinting stories from their other
magazines such as Daredevil Detective Stories and World-Wide Detective Stories.
No date is shown in the magazine but it was probably published in 1942 or 1943.
| 194? |
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v1 #1
Winter |
Although primarily a website publishing individual pieces of fiction,
there was also a short-lived e-book spin-off that ran for 4 issues.
| 2020 |
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#1
Jun |
#2
Jul |
#3
Aug |
#4
Sep |
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A short-lived pulp from Western Fiction Publishing, not to be
confused with the more successful Complete Detective Novel Magazine.
| 1938 |
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v1 #1
May |
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v1 #2
Aug |
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v1 #3
Nov |
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| 1939 |
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v1 #4
Feb |
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v1 #5
May |
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v1 #6
Oct |
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A short-lived Canadian magazine about which virtually nothing is known.
| 1941 |
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Jun |
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A short-lived all-reprint magazine which, despite its name, predominantly featured
cops-and-robbers crime adventures, often featuring organised crime.
A Canadian reprint edition is believed to exist but has not been seen.
| 1931 |
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v1 #1
Dec |
| 1932 |
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v1 #2
Apr |
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v1 #3
Jul |
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v2 #1
Oct |
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| 1933 |
v2 #2
Jan |
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v2 #3
Apr |
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Although typical of the period, Complete Underworld Novelettes featured some of the
better-known authors such as W.T. Ballard and Ace Williams. Billed initially as a quarterly,
and latterly as bi-monthly, it rarely maintained such a schedule.
| 1932 |
v1 #1
Spring (May) |
v1 #2
Summer |
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v1 #3
Winter (Dec) |
| 1933 |
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v1 #4
Summer |
v2 #1
Fall (October) |
v2 #2
Winter 1933/34 |
| 1934 |
v2 #3
Spring |
v2 #4
August |
v3 #1
October |
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Despite the subtitle, the magazine provided a standard fare of murder and
detective mystery short stories, all new, by prominent mystery authors.
However, the debut issue failed to find favour, and the title was discontinued.
| 1953 |
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v1 #1
Fall |
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A print science fiction mystery magazine containing fiction, illustrations,
articles, and interviews, and published biannually. There was no issue #3.
| 2011 |
#1
Jan |
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#2
Jul |
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| 2012 |
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#4
Jul |
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#5
Jan |
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| 2024 |
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Mar |
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Focussing on non-fictional accounts of "Famous Trials of Today and Yesterday"
the magazine contained very little fiction (and none at all in the last two issues).
| 1931 |
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v1 #1
Aug-Sep |
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v1 #2
Nov |
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| 1932 |
v1 #3
Jan |
v1 #4
Feb |
v2 #1
Mar |
v2 #2
Apr |
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Short-lived, small press, detective magazine. Other issues may exist.
| 1997 |
Spring |
Summer |
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| 1998 |
Spring |
Summer |
Fall |
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| 1999 |
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Short-lived experiment containing "current best-sellers" digested by
the best-selling Craig Rice "for smooth, speedy reading of your
favourite mystery writers". It only lasted for two issues.
| 1945 |
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#1
Aug/Sep |
#2
Oct/Nov |
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The Craig Rice Mystery Digest contained four abridged novels and, although in digest form was really
an anthology issued as #12 in the 'Bonded Collection'. In effect, it served as a trial balloon for
Craig Rice Crime Digest which was to be launched later that year.
| 1945 |
#1 |
Really a gangster magazine with the atmosphere of a 40s pulp. Old-time
writers G.T. Fleming-Roberts and Robert Sidney Bowen appeared alongside
newcomers Harlan Ellison and Edward D. Hoch.
| 1956 |
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#1
Sep |
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#2
Nov |
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| 1957 |
#3
Jan |
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#4
Mar |
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One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK
in the years after the Second World War.
| 1948 |
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Jun |
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One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the
years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Homicide
Reporter, Police Detective, Racket-Buster Detective
and Crime Investigator.
A short-lived magazine presenting extracts and condensations of forthcoming books.
Companion magazine to Science Fiction Digest.
| 1981 |
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Oct/Nov |
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| 1982 |
Jan/Feb |
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May/Jun |
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Uncommon one-shot pulp from Trojan Magazines about which little is known.
| 1950 |
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Dec |
One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the
years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime
Detective, Homicide Reporter, Police Detective and
Racket-Buster Detective.
| 1949 |
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Aug |
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An early horror-oriented crime pulp magazine with a decided macabre slant,
Crime Mysteries started as a weekly, but dropped back to a monthly schedule
after only six issues and folded two issues later.
| 1927 |
v1 #1
Aug 19 |
v1 #2
Sep 2 |
v1 #3
Sep 16 |
v1 #4
Sep 30 |
v1 #5
Oct 14 |
v1 #6
Oct 28 |
v2 #7
Nov |
v2 #8
Dec |
One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK
in the years after the Second World War.
| 1948? |
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Apparently a magazine of this title was planned c. 1935 but was never
published. All that survives is a cover of an ashcan edition produced
for trademark purposes.
| 1935 |
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A quarterly magazine dedicated to hard-hitting crime fiction short stories.
| 2016 |
#1
Jan |
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#2
May |
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| 2017 |
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#4
Oct |
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Irregular magazine of edgy crime short fiction, often with a tint of horror, fantasy or the supernatural.
| 1999 |
#1 |
#2 |
| 2000 |
#3 |
#4 |
| 2001 |
#5 |
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| 2002 |
#6 |
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| 2003 |
#7 |
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| 2004 |
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| 2005 |
#8 |
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| 2006 |
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| 2007 |
#9 |
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| 2008 |
#10 |
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| 2009 |
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| 2010 |
#11 |
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| 2011 |
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#12 |
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| 2018 |
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