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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192808_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Aug |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192809_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Sep |
v1 #3 Oct |
v1 #4 Nov |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192812_tn.jpg) v1 #5 Dec |
1929 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192901_tn.jpg) v1 #6 Jan |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192902_tn.jpg) v1 #7 Feb |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cabaret_stories_192903_tn.jpg) v1 #8 Mar |
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A short-lived "spicy" detective pulp that only lasted for three issues.
1938 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/candid_detective_193811_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Nov |
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1939 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/candid_detective_193901_v1_n2_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Jan |
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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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/charlie_chan_mystery_197311_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Nov |
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1974 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/charlie_chan_mystery_197402_n2_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Feb |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/charlie_chan_mystery_1974_n3_tn.jpg) v1 #3 May |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/charlie_chan_mystery_197408_tn.jpg) v1 #4 Aug |
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A short-lived mystery digest that never lived up to its initial promise.
1964 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/chase_196401_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Jan |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/chase_196405_v1_n2_tn.jpg) v1 #2 May |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/chase_196409_v1_n3_tn.jpg) 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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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.
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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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/close_to_the_bone_202006_n1_tn.jpg) #1 Jun |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/close_to_the_bone_202007_n2_tn.jpg) #2 Jul |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/close_to_the_bone_202008_n3_tn.jpg) #3 Aug |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/close_to_the_bone_202009_n4_tn.jpg) #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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_detective_193805_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 May |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_detective_193808_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Aug |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_detective_193811_tn.jpg) v1 #3 Nov |
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1939 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_detective_193910_tn.jpg) v1 #6 Oct |
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A short-lived Canadian magazine about which virtually nothing is known.
1941 |
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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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_mystery_novelettes_193112_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Dec |
1932 |
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1933 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_mystery_novelettes_193301_tn.jpg) v2 #2 Jan |
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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 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1932spr_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Spring (May) |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1932sum_v1_n2_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Summer |
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1933 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1933sum_tn.jpg) v1 #4 Summer |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1933fal_tn.jpg) v2 #1 Fall (October) |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1933win-34_tn.jpg) v2 #2 Winter 1933/34 |
1934 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_1934spr_tn.jpg) v2 #3 Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_193408_tn.jpg) v2 #4 August |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/complete_underworld_novelettes_193410_tn.jpg) 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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A print science fiction mystery magazine containing fiction, illustrations,
articles, and interviews, and published biannually. There was no issue #3.
2011 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cosmic_crime_stories_201101_v1_n1_tn.jpg) #1 Jan |
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2012 |
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2013 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cosmic_crime_stories_201301_tn.jpg) #5 Jan |
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2020 |
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2021 |
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2022 |
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2023 |
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2024 |
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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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/courtroom_stories_193108-09_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Aug-Sep |
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1932 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/courtroom_stories_193201_v1_n3_tn.jpg) v1 #3 Jan |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/courtroom_stories_193202_v1_n4_tn.jpg) v1 #4 Feb |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/courtroom_stories_193203_tn.jpg) v2 #1 Mar |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/courtroom_stories_193204_tn.jpg) v2 #2 Apr |
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Short-lived, small press, detective magazine. Other issues may exist.
1997 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cozy_detective_1997spr_tn.jpg) Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/cozy_detective_1997sum_tn.jpg) Summer |
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1998 |
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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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![](../data/thumbs2/c/craig_rice_crime_digest_194608-09_v1_n1_tn.jpg) #1 Aug/Sep |
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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 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/craig_rice_mystery_digest_1945_n1_tn.jpg) #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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1957 |
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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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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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1982 |
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Uncommon one-shot pulp from Trojan Magazines about which little is known.
1950 |
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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 Crime
Detective, Homicide Reporter, Police Detective and
Racket-Buster Detective.
1949 |
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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 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19270819_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Aug 19 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19270902_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Sep 2 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19270916_tn.jpg) v1 #3 Sep 16 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19270930_tn.jpg) v1 #4 Sep 30 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19271014_tn.jpg) v1 #5 Oct 14 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_19271028_tn.jpg) v1 #6 Oct 28 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_mysteries_192711_tn.jpg) 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 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crime_syndicate_201601_n1_tn.jpg) #1 Jan |
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2017 |
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Irregular magazine of edgy crime short fiction, often with a tint of horror, fantasy or the supernatural.
1999 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crimewave_1999spr_n1_tn.jpg) #1 |
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2000 |
![](../data/thumbs2/c/crimewave_2000_n3_tn.jpg) #3 |
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2001 |
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2002 |
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2003 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2007 |
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2008 |
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2009 |
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2010 |
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2011 |
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2012 |
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2013 |
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2018 |
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