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Beadle's Weekly

Mostly westerns, mysteries and adventure stories. Authors include Ned Buntline, William F. Cody, Bracebridge Hemyng, Prentiss Ingraham; really a continuation of The Saturday Journal.

Issues & Index Sources

18-Nov-1882 – 8-Nov-1884

15-Nov-1884 – 22-May-1897, as Banner Weekly

Publishers

Beadle & Adams, NY

Formats

large tabloid story paper

Prices

6c

Pagecounts

8pp

Frequency

weekly

Bear Flag Monthly

It is described as "Fancy and fiction from western pens". Each no. contains a complete novel, or a collection of short stories.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1891 – ?

Publishers: Bear Flag Publ. Co., San Francisco, CA

Beau

Total Issues: 7?

Subtitled "The Man's Magazine - Devoted to the Comforts and Luxuries of Living". Featured a mix of fiction and non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1926? – Jul-1927:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Editors: Samuel Roth

Beauty Parade

Pin-up magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1941 – 1956

(possibly non-fiction)

Publishers:   Beauty Parade Inc., NY; Harrison Publications [by v.5 n.1]
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide

Bedside Clubman

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1951:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Bayard Productions (London 1951) Ltd., 30 Cork Street, London W.1
Editors: Maurice Moiseiwitsch; Gerald Kelsey (Assistant Editor)

Bedside Detective Casebook

see under Detective Casebook

Bedtime Stories

Risque Stories and Illustrations with Nude Photos. Revived briefly c. 1939/40.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1932 – 1940?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Nov-1932 – Sep-1934: Regal Publishing Co.
  Oct-1934 – Jun-1937: Detinuer Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware
  Jul-1937 – Aug-1938?: D.M. Publishing

Prices

25c

Pagecounts

68pp

Sources

UltGuide, Uncovered



Issue Checklist

Bedtime Tales

Subtitled "A Magazine of Good Humour"; unclear if it ran any fiction but it seems likely.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Pagecounts: 96pp

The Bee

A review/miscellany. Most stories anonymous. May have published Richard Adams Locke; vol. 2 entitled The Queen Bee and vol.3 The Working Bee.

Issues & Index Sources: 1820 – 1823

Publishers:   published in Liverpool
Formats:   octavo
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Sources:   BritLit1

Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine

see under Boy's Own Magazine. An illustrated journal of Fact, Fiction, History and Adventure

Beginnings

Subtitled "a magazine for the novice writer".

Issues & Index Sources: 1998 – ?

Publishers:   Jenine Boisits
Website:   www.scbeginnings.com
Editors:   Jenine Boisits
Formats:   8" x 10"
Prices:   $5.50
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Behind the Mask

Total Issues: 71

Facsimile reprints of classic pulp stories.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1989 – Winter 2005:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers

Fading Shadows, Inc.

Website

www.geocities.com/fadingshadows1/

Editors

Tom & Ginger Johnson

Prices

$5.00

Frequency

  May-1989 – Fall 1991: quarterly
  Jan-1992 – May-1995: bi-monthly
  Summer 1995 – Winter 2005: quarterly



Issue Checklist

The Belfast Monthly Magazine

A general magazine that very, very occasionally published fiction

Issues & Index Sources: 1808 – 1814

Publishers:   published in Belfast
Editors:   Dr. William Drennan
Frequency:   monthly

Belford's Magazine [1876]

Total Issues: 19

Authors include Susanna Moodie, J.G. Bourinet, James Payne, Walter Besant, James Rice, Charles Sangster; merged with Canadian Monthly and National Review to form Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1876 – Jun-1878

Publishers:   Belford Brothers, Toronto
Formats:   standard
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly

Belford's Magazine [1888]

Total Issues: 63

Many essays and reviews; one or two stories per issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1888 – Aug-1891

Sep-1891 – Mar-1892, as Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review

Apr-1892 – Jul-1893, as Belford's Monthly

Publishers

Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago

Editors

Donn Piatt except for approx. Jun-1889 - Jun-1891 when Alvah Milton Kerr was editor

Formats

standard

Pagecounts

60pp

Frequency

monthly

Belgravia

Total Issues: 392+14=406

Circulation peaked at 18,000 in 1868; published much of Braddon's early work, also G.A. Sala and Sheridan Le Fanu; C&W took the magazine more upmarket with fiction by Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy and early work by Conan Doyle; under White quality declined.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1866 – Jun-1899:

Indexes to Fiction #14: Belgravia

Publishers

  Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: John Maxwell
  May-1876 – Sep-1889: Chatto & Windus
  Oct-1889 – Mar-1897: F.V. White
  Apr-1897 – Dec-1897?: Biggs & Co.
  Jan-1898? – Oct-1898: May, Wyatt & Co.
  Nov-1898 – Jun-1899: A.F. May

Editors

Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: Mary E. Braddon
May-1876 – Sep-1889: Andrew Chatto

Formats

standard (in imitation of The Cornhill)

Prices

1/-

Frequency

monthly, plus an Annual 1876 - 1889

Sources

BritLit3, AgeStory

Believe It or Not

see under Story Digest Magazine

The Bell

Although this was a review of Irish art, literature, the theatre, music and other crafts its core was fiction, it even called itself "The Magazine of Creative Fiction" for a while. It published works by W.B. Yeats, Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen, Flann O'Brien, Lord Dunsany, Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1940 – Dec-1954

Publishers

Cahill & Co., Dublin

Editors

Oct-1940 – Mar-1946: Sean O'Faolain
Apr-1946 – Dec-1954: Peadar O'Donnell

Frequency

monthly (no issues Apr-1948 - Nov-1950)

Sources

BritLit4

Bella

Women's magazine that publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1987 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   H. Bauer Publishing (in 2002)
Website:   www.bauer.co.uk/our-magazines/bella
Editors:   Jackie Highe (in 1998); Jayne Marsden (in 2004)
Prices:   66p (in 2002); 70p (in 2004)
Pagecounts:   58pp (in 2002)
Frequency:   weekly