The FictionMags Index

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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v1 #3, Summer 1950] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Salter) 3 · Friday, the Nineteenth · Elisabeth Sanxay Holding · ss 18 · Huge Beast · Cleve Cartmill · ss 25 · The Hat in the Hall · Jack Iams · ss 29 · The War Against the Moon · André Maurois · nv The Forum Jul 1927 47 · Dumb Supper · Henderson Starke · ss 59 · Ounce of Prevention · Paul A. Carter · ss; given as by Philip Carter. 70 · The Case of Summerfield · W. H. Rhodes · nv Sacramento Union May 1871, as by Caxton 96 · Divine Right · Betsy Curtis · ss 108 · Born of Man and Woman · Richard Matheson · vi 111 · Professor Pownall’s Oversight · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Royal Magazine Mar 1928, as “The Unseen Player” 123 · Haunt · A. Bertram Chandler · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v1 #4, Fall 1950] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Salter) 3 · The Silly Season · C. M. Kornbluth · ss 17 · The Traitor · James S. Hart · ss 31 · Top Secret · David Grinnell · vi Sir! 1948 33 · Built Up Logically · Howard Schoenfeld · ss Retort Win 1949, as “The Universal Panacea” 44 · A Room in a House · August Derleth · ss 53 · The Poetry Machine [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss 60 · Pamela Pays the Piper · Phyllis Lee Peterson · ss Canadian Home Journal 73 · Just a Matter of Time · Roger Angell · ss The New Yorker Feb 7 1948 84 · Second Meeting · George Whitley · ss Town & Country 1948 93 · Heritage · Charles L. Harness · nv 121 · The Star Ducks · Bill Brown · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v1 #5, December 1950] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Chesley Bonestell) 3 · Take Two Quiggies · Kris Neville · nv 27 · The Better Mousetrap [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 37 · The Listening Child · Idris Seabright · ss 46 · Process · A. E. van Vogt · ss 52 · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly Oct 1859, uncredited 85 · The Angel with Purple Hair · Herb Paul · ss 99 · Dianetics: a book review, by L. Ron Hubbard · C. Daly King, Ph.D. · br 105 · The Well-Oiled Machine · H. B. Fyfe · nv 120 · Another Chance for Casey · Larry Siegel · ss The American Legion Magazine 1950 128 · Index to Volume 1 · Anon. · ix

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #1, February 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest) 3 · John the Revelator · Oliver La Farge · ss 15 · One of the Family · R. Bretnor · ss 21 · Temporarily at Liberty · Lawrence Goldman · ss 25 · Journey · Gene Hunter · ss 34 · The One Who Waits · Ray Bradbury · ss The Arkham Sampler Sum 1949 41 · My Brother’s Wife · Wilson Tucker · ss 54 · The Friendly Demon · Daniel Defoe · ss J. Rogers 1726 61 · The Roommate · Graves Taylor · ss 74 · No-Sided Professor · Martin Gardner · ss Esquire Jan 1947 85 · Barney · Will Stanton · vi 87 · Fearsome Fable · Bruce Elliott · vi 88 · The Railway Carriage [Solange Fontaine] · F. Tennyson Jesse · ss The Strand Magazine Nov 1931 102 · Time Tourist · Maurice Murphy · ss 107 · The Episode of the Perilous Talisman [Trevis Tarrant] · Jeremiah Phelan · nv

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #2, April 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Salter) 3 · Interloper · Poul Anderson · nv 23 · More Than Skin Deep [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 29 · The Last Séance · Agatha Christie · ss Ghost Stories Nov 1926, as “The Woman Who Stole a Ghost” 41 · The Devil Was Sick · Bruce Elliott · ss 49 · Through Channels · Richard Matheson · ss 55 · Brightness Falls from the Air · Idris Seabright · ss; published without a title as part of a $100 title contest. 61 · The Mathematical Voodoo [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss 75 · Extending the Holdings · David Grinnell · vi 78 · Miss Frost · Christopher Wood · ss 88 · The Other End · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End, Palmer 1923 104 · The Hill · George Paul Elliott · ss Pacific Feb 1948 114 · Narapoia [Manly J. Departure] · Alan Nelson · ss What’s Doing Apr 1948, as “The Origin of Narapoia” 119 · Larroes Catch Meddlers · Manly Wade Wellman · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #3, June 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest) 3 · Old Man Henderson · Kris Neville · ss 12 · The Threepenny-Piece · James Stephens · ss Here Are Ladies, Macmillan 1913 19 · Love Story · Kay Rogers · vi 22 · Bargain from Brunswick · John Wyndham · ss 33 · Scrap Iron · Larry Sternig · ss Fight Stories Fll 1945 44 · The Boy Next Door · Chad Oliver · ss 51 · The Twilight Planet · Arthur Jean Cox · ss 55 · The Extreme Airiness of Duton Lang · Percival Wilde · ss Esquire Apr 1939 67 · Hell-Bent · Ford McCormack · ss; published without a title as part of a $100 title contest. 86 · The Glass of Supreme Moments · Barry Pain · ss Stories and Interludes, Henry & Co. 1892 95 · ’Twas Brillig... · Evan H. Appelman · vi 96 · Android · C. H. Liddell · nv 124 · A Story at Bedtime · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch, Methuen 1949

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #4, August 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Chesley Bonestell) 3 · Superiority · Arthur C. Clarke · ss 12 · Prolog · John P. McKnight · vi 15 · Wilfred Weem, Dreamer [Murchison Morks] · Robert Arthur · ss Argosy Jul 5 1941, as “Just a Dreamer” 28 · A Peculiar People · Betsy Curtis · ss 40 · The Punishing of Eddie Jungle-Spit · Garrett Oppenheim · ss Liberty May 1950 52 · The Embarrassing Dimension [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss 61 · Solitary Confinement · Philip MacDonald · ss 65 · The Man Who Could Smell Land · John Langdon · ss Mast Magazine Oct 1947 74 · The Daughter of the Tree · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 85 · John Thomas’s Cube · John Leimert · ss The Atlantic Monthly Aug 1945 93 · The Collector · H. F. Heard · nv 116 · The Rat That Could Speak [from The Uncommercial Traveller] · Charles Dickens · ss Chapman & Hall 1860 120 · Cattivo · Alan Nelson · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #5, October 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Salter) 3 · Of Time and Third Avenue · Alfred Bester · ss 10 · The Gorge of the Churels · H. Russell Wakefield · ss 18 · The Shape of Things That Came · Richard Deming · ss 24 · Achilles Had His Heel · Joseph H. Gage · ss 34 · The Rag Thing · David Grinnell · ss 38 · The Cocoon · Richard Brookbank · ss 45 · The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles · Idris Seabright · ss 49 · Beasts of Bourbon [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 61 · Jane Brown’s Body · Cornell Woolrich · na All-American Fiction Mar/Apr 1938 124 · Dress of White Silk · Richard Matheson · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v2 #6, December 1951] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Salter & Dirone Photography) 3 · When the Last Gods Die · Fritz Leiber · ss 8 · The Haunted Ticker · Percival Wilde · nv The Popular Magazine May 20 1923 34 · O Ugly Bird! [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss 45 · The Rats · Arthur Porges · ss Man’s World Feb 1951 53 · Built Down Logically · Howard Schoenfeld · vi 56 · The Earlier Service · Margaret Irwin · ss Madame Fears the Dark, A.D. Peters 1935 69 · The Universe Broke Down · Robert Arthur · ss Argosy Jun 7 1941 79 · Come On, Wagon! · Zenna Henderson · ss 89 · The House in Arbor Lane · James S. Hart · nv 109 · Skiametric Morphology and Behaviorism of Ganymedeus Sapiens · Kenneth R. Deardorf · ms 113 · The Hyperspherical Basketball [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss 127 · Index to Volume 2 · Anon. · ix

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #1, February 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Chesley Bonestell) 3 · Ransom · H. B. Fyfe · ss 10 · The Rape of the Lock [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 19 · Ugly Sister · Jan Struther · ss The London Mercury Dec 1935 26 · Flood · L. Major Reynolds · ss 32 · Mrs. Poppledore’s Id · Reginald Bretnor · nv 52 · Minister Without Portfolio · Mildred Clingerman · ss 59 · The Good Life · J. J. Coupling · ss 68 · The 8:29 · Edward S. Sullivan · ss 74 · Jizzle · John Wyndham · ss; revised from Collier’s Jan 8 ’49, as by John Beynon. 84 · The Giant Finn MacCool · W. B. Ready · ss The Great Disciple, Bruce 1951 89 · The Pedestrian · Ray Bradbury · ss The Reporter Aug 7 1951 94 · The Lonely Worm · Kenneth H. Cassens · ss 108 · Hands Off · Edward Everett Hale · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Mar 1881, uncredited 119 · If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker Dec 6 1930 122 · The Hole in the Moon · Idris Seabright · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #2, April 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Salter) 3 · Love Thy Vimp · Alan E. Nourse · ss 17 · SRL Ad · Richard Matheson · ss 26 · Sealskin Trousers · Eric Linklater · ss The Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories, Hart-Davis 1947 39 · The Dreamer · Alfred Coppel · vi 43 · The Anomaly of the Empty Man · Anthony Boucher · ss 57 · The Cheery Soul · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener Dec 24 1942 66 · A Tale to Tell · C. A. Barnett · ss 71 · The Bitterness of Ghoril · Kay Rogers · ss 75 · The Shout · Robert Graves · ss The Woburn Books #16 1929 91 · Machine · John W. Jakes · vi 98 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1896 108 · The Actinic Actor [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · nv 127 · Letters to the Editor · Ron Goulart · ss Pelican Oct 1950

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #3, June 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Emsh) 3 · Love · Richard Wilson · ss 9 · The Causes · Idris Seabright · ss 19 · The Desrick on Yandro [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss 30 · The Moon Maiden · Hannibal Coons · ss Collier’s Nov 10 1951 44 · The Brothers · Clifton Dance, Jr. · ss 57 · Finale · R. Bretnor · ss The Pacific Spectator Spr 1949 62 · The Beach Thing · Ralph Robin · ss 70 · Dragon on Somerset Street · Elmer Roessner · ss Esquire Nov 1951 74 · Underground Movement · Kris Neville · ss 88 · Artists at Work · Harold Lynch, Jr. · ss 95 · The Call of Wings · Agatha Christie · ss The Hound of Death and Other Stories, Odhams 1933 107 · The Business, as Usual · Mack Reynolds · vi 110 · The Big Nasturtiums · Robert Beverly Hale · pm The New Yorker Feb 3 1951 111 · Lambikin · Sam Merwin, Jr. · ss

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #4, August 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by George Gibbons) 3 · Hobson’s Choice · Alfred Bester · ss 16 · The Ancestral Amethyst [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 23 · W.S. · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review Jan 1952 32 · The Tooth · G. Gordon Dewey · ss 47 · Nine-Finger Jack · Anthony Boucher · ss Esquire May 1951 52 · The Sling · Richard Ashby · ss 63 · The Soothsayer · Kem Bennett · ss Magpie Aug 1951 70 · “Who Shall I Say Is Calling?” · August Derleth · ss 79 · Listen · Gordon R. Dickson · ss 85 · Nor Iron Bars · Dan Kelly & Cleve Cartmill · ss 90 · Extra-Curricular · Garen Drussaï · ss 97 · Stair Trick · Mildred Clingerman · ss 101 · Note on a Grave Situation · Leonard Wolf · pm 105 · Proof Positive · Graham Greene · ss The Basement Room and Other Stories, Cresset Press 1935 109 · The Gualcophone · Alan Nelson · ss 124 · The Hour of Letdown · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker Dec 22 1951

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #5, September 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Emsh) 3 · Budding Explorer · Ralph Robin · ss 11 · Hilda · H. B. Hickey · ss 15 · Ganymedeus Sapiens: Modern Scientific Dilemma · Kenneth R. Deardorf · ms 20 · Mother · Alfred Coppel · vi 23 · The Factitious Pentangle [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss 40 · Extracts from a Bibliomaniac’s Journal · Harry Lawton · vi 45 · The Good Provider · Marion Gross · ss 49 · The Fly · Arthur Porges · ss 53 · The Mist · Peter Cartur · vi 56 · Three Day Magic · Charlotte Armstrong · na; a shorter version was published in Today’s Woman (December 1948).

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #6, October 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Chesley Bonestell) 3 · Grenville’s Planet · Michael Shaara · ss 13 · The Black Ball [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss 21 · Talents · J. T. M’Intosh · nv 42 · Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court [Mr. Mulliner] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine Feb 1929 58 · The First · Anthony Boucher · vi 61 · Old Man Morgan’s Grave · Miriam Allen deFord · ss 71 · The Darker Drink [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris (ghost written by Cleve Cartmill) · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct 1947 92 · An Egg a Month from All Over · Idris Seabright · ss 101 · Aunt Agatha · Doris P. Buck · vi 103 · Ararat [People] · Zenna Henderson · nv 124 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s Oct 7 1950

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [v3 #7, November 1952] (35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Emsh) 3 · The Little Movement · Philip K. Dick · ss 11 · Winning Recipe · Mildred Clingerman · ss Collier’s Jun 21 1952 15 · Malice Aforethought · David Grinnell · ss 19 · The Martian and the Magician · Evelyn E. Smith · ss 24 · Bring the Jubilee · Ward Moore · n. 113 · “Bem” · Charles T. Webb · vi 116 · The Yellow Catfish · Vance Randolph · vi 118 · The Wilderness · Ray Bradbury · ss Today Apr 6 1952; revised.