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Short-lived pulp magazine concentrating on off-trail weird-mystery stories.

Publishers: New Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago 18, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1948

v1 #1
Mar

v1 #2
May

v1 #3
Jul
v1 #4
Sep (unpublished)

Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales:

The magazine started as a companion to Keyhole Mystery under the title Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales, but only lasted for three issues, during which it reprinted classic stories from authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner and Jack London. After a brief hiatus it was resurrected by a different publisher as a weird-menace companion to Web Terror Stories under the title Shock Mystery Tales.

— Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales

Publishers: Winston Publications, Inc.; New York.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1960

v1 #1
May

v1 #2
Jul

v1 #3
Sep

— Shock Mystery Tales Magazine

Title changed from Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales.

Publishers: Pontiac Publishing Corporation; New York.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1961

v2 #1
Dec

1962

v2 #2
Mar

v2 #3
May

v2 #4
Jul

v2 #5
Oct
v2 #6
Dec

1963

v3 #1
Feb

Shots: (about)

Started as a print magazine under the title A Shot in the Dark, was then renamed to Shots and became an online ezine from 2002. Mainly a non-fiction fanzine which published occasional fiction.

— A Shot in the Dark

Publishers: A Shot in the Dark Collective; 32 High Street, Bonsall, Derbyshire, DE4 2AN, Jun 1994 – Dec 1996; A Shot in the Dark Collective; 189 Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 7SH, Mar 1997 – Dec 1997.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1994

#0
Jun

#1
Sep

#2
Dec

1995

#3
Mar

#4
Jun

#5
Sep

#6
Winter

1996

#7
Spring

#8
Summer

#9
Autumn

#10
Winter ’96/’97

1997

#11
Spring

#12
Summer

#13
Autumn

#14
Winter ’97/’98

— Shots

Title Changed from A Shot in the Dark.

Publishers: Shots; Woodford Green, Essex.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1998

v1 #1
Spring

v1 #2
Summer

v1 #3
Autumn

v1 #4
Winter

1999

v2 #5
Spring

v2 #6
Winter

2000

v2 #7
Spring

v2 #8
Winter

2001

#9
Spring

#10
Summer

Sizzling Detective Mysteries (about)

--- see under Snappy Detective Mysteries.

Skullduggery:

A short-lived small-press magazine that ran for 8 issues under the title Skullduggery and then a further 4 issues under the title Spiderweb

— Skullduggery

Publishers: Cook-McDowell Publications, Inc.; 719 E. 6th Street, Owensboro, KY 42301, Jan 1980 – Jun 1980; Skullduggery; P.O. Box 191, M.I.T. Branch Station, Cambridge, MA 02139, Jan 1981 – Dec 1981.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1980
v1 #1
Jan

v1 #2
Apr
v1 #3
May
v1 #4
Jun

1981
v2 #1
#5
Winter

v2 #2
#6
Spring

v2 #3
#7
Summer

v2 #4
#8
Fall

— Spiderweb

Title changed from Skullduggery.

Publishers: Corsair Press; PO Box 191, MIT Branch Station, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1982
v1 #1
#1
Winter

v1 #2
#2
Spring

v1 #3
#3
Summer

v1 #4
#4
Fall

Sleuth Magazine (about)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

2015

v1 #1
Aug

Sleuthhound (about)

Elusive small press crime magazine that was a companion and/or successor to Whispering Willow Mysteries that ran for at least four issues, each labelled with names like “Hawk Edition” as well as being dated.

Publishers: Whispering Willows Ltd.; 2517 South Central, POB 890294, Oklahoma City, OK, 73189-0294.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1997
v 1 #1

1998

v 2 #1
Spring

v 2 #2
(Autumn)

Winter ’98/’99

Sleuth Mystery Magazine (about)

Published “in cooperation with the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.”, Sleuth Mystery Magazine provided light-hearted, crime-adventure vignettes by well-known writers, in much the same style as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. It folded after only two issues, possibly because of distribution problems.

Publishers: Fosdeck Publications, Inc.; 122 East 42nd Street, New York 17, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1958

v1 #1
Oct

v1 #2
Dec

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