The FictionMags Index

Chronological List

BEST, (Oswald) HERBERT (1894-1980) (stories)
• The Witch’s Hen (ss) St. Nicholas Oct 1930
• The Winning of a Name (ss) St. Nicholas Nov 1930
• The Twenty-Fifth Hour (n.) Random House 1940
• Early American (ss) Collier’s Nov 22 1941

BEST, JACK (stories)
• Nommo (ss) Ethereal Tales Oct 2008

BEST, JAMES W. (fl. 1930s) (stories)
• Monkeys (ar) The Cornhill Magazine Dec 1931
• Vox Populi (ar) The Cornhill Magazine Jun 1932
• Charity (ss) The Cornhill Magazine Mar 1933

BEST, JOEL (stories)
• Alien Dreams (pm) Icarus Ascending #1 2000
• Them Towers (ss) ChiZine Jan/Mar 2002
• Once Upon a Time in Alphabet City (ss) Strange Horizons Jul 22 2002
• Twenty-One Pennies (ss) Strange Horizons Nov 3 2003
• Walking West (ss) Fictitious Force #1 2005

BEST, KATHARINE (stories)
• Vicious (pm) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 25 1934
• Hi Brother Gene (ss) The Country Gentleman Apr 1947
• Born to Be a Best Cook [with Katharine Hillyer] (ar) McCall’s Mar 1950

BEST, KATHERINE (stories)
• ’Postle Peters (hu) The Saturday Evening Post May 14 1932, etc.

BEST, LLOYD STORR (stories)
• Hypnotism [with Milne Bramwell] (ar) The New Review Jun 1890

BEST, MARIE (stories)
• Nora Mahoney—a Human Document [with Viola Roseboro’] (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Aug 1906

BEST, MARJORIE (fl. 1930s) (stories)
• Farewell to Love (pm) The Grand Magazine Dec 1933

BEST, MARK (fl. 1990s-2000s) (stories)
• Comeback (ss) Hardboiled #15 1993
• Who the Hell Am I? (mr) Other Worlds #5 1993
• A Slight Change of Plan (ss) Naked Kiss v1 #1 1994
• The Shooting Script (ss) Red Herring Mystery Magazine v2 #2 1995
• The Words of a Sad Country Song (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1999
• Okayed for Browns (ss) Hardboiled #25/26 2000
• Alibi (sl) Futures Jun/Jul 2000, etc.
• Legacy (ss) The Vampire’s Crypt #23 2001
• The Safest Place on Earth (ss) Thrilling Detective (online) Spr 2005

BEST, MARY SUE (stories)
• You Too Can Write [with Ruth S. Kivett] (ar) The Saturday Evening Post Jul/Aug 1973

BEST, MAY B. (fl. 1920s) (stories)
• Why Did She Ever— (ss) Real Story Book Nov 1928

BEST, McMURRAY (fl. 1930s) (stories)
• Bad Order Locomotive (ts) Railroad Man’s Magazine Apr 1931

BEST, MICHAEL T. (fl. 2010s) (stories)
• Kane and Grable (ss) Kzine Sep 2016
• The Jade Star (nv) The Colored Lens Win 2018
• The Lexicon Case (ss) Mystery Weekly Mar 2018
• Silverfly City (ss) Alien Dimensions #15 2018

BEST, MOLLIE (stories)
• The Sinews of Peace (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1915
• What Worried Him (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1915
• Thomas Lurting: An Able Minded Seaman (ar) McClure’s Aug 1925
• Mary Fisher (bg) McClure’s Sep 1925

BEST, RITA (fl. 1950s) (stories)
• Whisky—Western Style (ar) Masked Rider Western Feb 1952

BEST, ROBERT R. (stories)
• She Does Not Know (pm) Twisted Tongue Feb 2008

BEST, St. GEORGE (fl. 1890s-1910s) (stories)
• Recognition (pm) Four O’Clock Dec 1897
• Helen of Troy (pm) The Smart Set Sep 1901
• Let Summer Die (pm) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1901
• Mignonette (pm) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1901
• One More Unfortunate (pm) Watson’s Magazine Nov 1914
• A Romance of Tyre (ms) The Parisienne Jul 1915

BEST, SUSIE M(ontgomery) (?-1944) (stories)
• Chime, Sweet Bells (pm) The Ladies’ World Dec 1894
• Love’s Saddest Possibility (pm) Lippincott’s Magazine Nov 1897
• The Ghost Flowers (pm) The Smart Set Sep 1900
• The Grave’s Compass (pm) Harper’s Monthly Magazine Oct 1901
• As Pass Strange Ships (pm) The Smart Set Jan 1902
• Amor Semper (pm) The Smart Set Jun 1902
• The Lesson (pm) Harper’s Monthly Magazine Oct 1902
• The Retribution (pm) Munsey’s Magazine Dec 1902
• The Fads of Fiction (pm) American Illustrated Magazine Nov 1905
• The Month of Roses (pm) Bob Taylor’s Magazine Jun 1906
• Mea Culpa! (pm) The American Magazine Nov 1906
• The Nativity (pm) Putnam’s Monthly and The Critic Dec 1906
• Man (pm) Harper’s Monthly Magazine Feb 1910
• The Turkey-Trot (pm) The Cavalier Aug 2 1913
• A Ballad of the Skirt (pm) Munsey’s Magazine Feb 1914
• In the Cabaret (pm) The Cavalier Mar 21 1914
• On Christe’s Day (pm) McBride’s Magazine Dec 1915
• Snow White and Rose Red (ss) Normal Instructor and Primary Plans Apr 1922
• The Miracle (pm) Amazing Stories Dec 1929
• A Canter (pm) Philadelphia Ledger
• Hope (pm) Philadelphia Ledger
• Uncle Zeke’s Wisdom (pm) Philadelphia Ledger
• When Duty’s Done (pm) Philadelphia Ledger

BEST, THOMAS R. (fl. 1920s-1930s) (stories)
• Vacationing Around Pike’s Peak (ar) Western Story Magazine Oct 7 1920
• Through the Royal Gorge (ar) Western Story Magazine Oct 21 1920
• Over the Narrow Gauge (ar) Western Story Magazine Oct 28 1920
• Seen from a Train in Utah (ar) Western Story Magazine Nov 4 1920
• Across the Great Salt Lake (ar) Western Story Magazine Nov 25 1920
• Along the Way in Wyoming (ar) Western Story Magazine Dec 2 1920
• The Forty-Niners (ar) Western Story Magazine Feb 12 1921
• Gold Lands (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 5 1921
• Before the Pioneers Came (ar) Western Story Magazine Nov 26 1921
• The First Round Trip to the Pacific (ar) Western Story Magazine Dec 10 1921
• The Trail Over the Rockies (ar) Western Story Magazine Dec 17 1921
• Lewis and Clark at the Pacific Coast (ar) Western Story Magazine Dec 24 1921
• Trappers and Indians (ar) Western Story Magazine Feb 25 1922
• The First Westerners (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 4 1922
• A Knight of the Wilderness (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 29 1922
• Monterey (ar) Western Story Magazine Aug 12 1922
• Sacramento Celebrates ’49 (ar) Western Story Magazine Sep 9 1922
• Where the West Ends (ar) Western Story Magazine Sep 16 1922
• Police Chiefs Meet in San Francisco (ar) Detective Story Magazine Dec 2 1922
• Guardians of Vancouver (ar) Detective Story Magazine Dec 9 1922
• Hiking Along Lake Tahoe (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 13 1923
• From Spokane to Puget Sound (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 20 1923
• A Great Mountain and Its Great Explorers (ar) Western Story Magazine Feb 3 1923
• Along the Columbia River Highway (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 3 1923
• Policing Omaha (ar) Detective Story Magazine Mar 17 1923
• Some Island Westerners (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 17 1923
• Berkeley’s Scientific Police Force (ar) Detective Story Magazine Apr 7 1923
• The Greatest Tragedy of the Overland Trail (ar) Western Story Magazine May 5 1923
• The Los Angeles Police Department (ar) Detective Story Magazine May 5 1923
• A Canadian Police Department (ar) Detective Story Magazine Jul 21 1923
• A Day with the Padres in 1822 (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 5 1924
• A Day at the Diggings, 1849 (ar) Western Story Magazine Feb 2 1924
• The Police of San Diego (ar) Detective Story Magazine Feb 9 1924
• A Day on the Overland Trail, 1849 (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 15 1924
• The Cradle of Gold (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 22 1924
• The Old Man of the Mountains (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 5 1924
• A Day in San Francisco, 1851 (ar) Western Story Magazine May 24 1924
• Columbia, the Gem of the Diggings (ar) Western Story Magazine Sep 27 1924
• Westerners, Whence and Whither? (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 17 1925
• Notable Events of the West in 1925 (cl) Western Story Magazine Jan 16 1926, etc.
• Where and How They Are Obtained (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 27 1926
• The Gold Districts (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 24 1926
• The Prospector (ar) Western Story Magazine May 1 1926
• Placer Mining (ar) Western Story Magazine Jun 26 1926
• Coal Mining in the West (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 3 1926
• Mining and Treating Gold Ores (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 10 1926
• Silver Mines (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 17 1926
• Mining in British Columbia (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 24 1926
• Metals of the West (ar) Western Story Magazine Aug 28 1926
• Silver: From Ore to Mint (ar) Western Story Magazine Sep 4 1926
• Notable Events of the West: October (ar) Western Story Magazine Oct 23 1926
• A Glance at the History of Copper (ar) Western Story Magazine Nov 13 1926
• How Copper Is Mined (ar) Western Story Magazine Dec 4 1926
• Copper Smelting (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 1 1927
• Lead (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 8 1927
• Zinc (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 5 1927
• Iron, the Great Metal (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 2 1927
• Iron Mines and Mining (ar) Western Story Magazine May 14 1927
• How Iron Is Smelted (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 2 1927
• Radium (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 9 1927
• Steel and Its Alloys (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 16 1927
• Platinum (ar) Western Story Magazine Jul 23 1927
• Quicksilver (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 14 1928
• The Assay Office (ar) Western Story Magazine Apr 21 1928
• Extra! News from the West! (ar) Western Story Magazine Nov 23 1929
• What Oil Is and Does (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 3 1931
• Feast and Famine (ar) Western Story Magazine Jan 17 1931
• Where It Is Found (ar) Western Story Magazine Feb 28 1931
• How It Was Formed (ar) Western Story Magazine Mar 14 1931
• Looking for It (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Jun 6 1931
• Drilling (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Jun 13 1931
• Fishing, Cementing, Shooting (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Aug 1 1931
• How It Flows (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Aug 15 1931
• Oil-Field Activities (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Aug 22 1931
• Who Gets the Oil Millions? (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Aug 29 1931
• Products of Petroleum (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Sep 5 1931
• Small Beginnings of a Great Industry (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Sep 12 1931
• The Great Company (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Sep 19 1931
• The Driller Goes West (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Sep 26 1931
• New Wealth for the West (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Oct 10 1931
• The Great Flood (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Oct 17 1931
• A World Problem (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Nov 7 1931
• Is a Shortage Possible? (ar) Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Feb 6 1932

BEST-RANDALL, W. C. (stories)
• Catering for Castaways (ar) The Boy’s Own Paper Sep 1925
• Snakes (ar) The Boy’s Own Paper Jan 1929
• The Pain-God of the Hills (ss) London Life Apr 27 1935

BEST-RANDALL, W. F. (stories)
• The Feathers of Uaala (ss) The Boy’s Own Paper Jan 1925

BESTALL, A(lfred) E(dmeades) (1892-1986) (stories)
• Which Letter? (ct) Gaiety Dec 1922
• “Mummy, I Want to Marry Bobby.” (ct) Gaiety Jan 1923
• “Know Anything about Rugger?” (ct) Gaiety Mar 1923
• Sour Milk (ct) Gaiety Dec 1923
• The Definition (ct) Gaiety Jan 1924
• A Mistake Somewhere (ct) Gaiety Feb 1924
• The ’Counter Irritant’ (ct) Gaiety Mar 1924
• Extinguished Features (ct) Gaiety Mar 1924
• “How My Husband Proposed...” (ct) Gaiety Mar 1924
• Old Lady stops the train (ct) Gaiety Dec 1924
• “Anythin’ in it?” (ct) Gaiety Feb 1925
• Trials of a Golfer (ct) Gaiety Mar 1925
• The Approach of a Cursed Crowd (ct) Gaiety Apr 1925
• Keeping up with the Shorthand-Writer (ct) Gaiety Apr 1925
• “You’ve forgotten to put R.S.V.P. at the Bottom!” (ct) Gaiety Apr 1925
• By the Yard (ct) Gaiety May 1925
• An Interesting Ceremony (ct) Gaiety May 1925
• A Run on the Bank (ct) Gaiety May 1925
• At the Theatre (ct) Gaiety Aug 1925
• Putting Him Right (ct) Gaiety Aug 1925

BESTER, ALFRED (1913-1987); see pseudonym Sonny Powell (stories)
• The Broken Axiom (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr 1939
• No Help Wanted (vi) Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec 1939
• Guinea Pig, Ph.D. (ss) Startling Stories Mar 1940
• Voyage to Nowhere (nv) Thrilling Wonder Stories Jul 1940
• Treachery on Camoia (na) South Sea Stories Oct 1940
• The Mad Molecule (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories Jan 1941
• The Pet Nebula (ss) Astonishing Stories Feb 1941
• Slaves of the Life Ray (nv) Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb 1941
• The Probable Man (nv) Astounding Jul 1941
• Adam and No Eve (ss) Astounding Sep 1941
• The McGrabb Bag (ss) Detective Fiction Oct 1 1941
• The Biped, Reegan (ss) Super Science Stories Nov 1941
• Life for Sale (nv) Amazing Stories Jan 1942
• The Push of a Finger (na) Astounding May 1942
• The Unseen Blushers (ss) Astonishing Stories Jun 1942
• Hell Is Forever (na) Unknown Worlds Aug 1942
• The House That Gaul Built (ss) The Shadow Jul 1944
• The Devil’s Invention (ss) Astounding Aug 1950
• Chez Lather (ar) Woman’s Day Nov 1950
• Of Time and Third Avenue (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1951
• The Demolished Man (n.) Galaxy Science Fiction Jan 1952, etc.
• Hobson’s Choice (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1952
• The Roller Coaster (ss) Fantastic May/Jun 1953
• Star Light, Star Bright (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jul 1953
• Time Is the Traitor (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Sep 1953
• Disappearing Act (ss) Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine 1953
• 5,271,009 (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar 1954
• Fondly Fahrenheit (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1954
• [letter] (lt) New Worlds Science Fiction Nov 1954, etc.
• What’s the Difference? (ed) Science Fantasy #12 1955
• The Stars My Destination (n.) Sidgwick & Jackson 1956, as “Tiger! Tiger!”.
• Tiger! Tiger! (n.) Sidgwick & Jackson 1956; also as “The Stars My Destination”.
• The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1958
• Will You Wait? (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar 1959
• The Pi Man (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1959
• Bester’s World (cl) Rogue Mar 1960, etc.
• The All-Star SF Author, by Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, James Blish, Isaac Asimov, Philip José Farmer & Ray Bradbury (br) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Mar 1961