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The Belles of England

Total Issues: 52

Issues & Index Sources:  10-Sep-1871 – 1-Sep-1872
Publishers:   Charles Fox, London
Editors:   George Emmett
Frequency:   weekly

The Bellingham Review

Total Issues: 59 (to Aug-2007)

A nonprofit literary arts magazine that runs poems, stories, essays, reviews, plays and photos. Circulation About 2,500.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1977 – present
Publishers:   Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225 (Signpost Press; in 2002)
Website:   www.ac.wwu.edu/~bhreview/
Editors:   Robin Hemley (in 1996); Brenda Miller (in 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   120pp
Frequency:   quarterly to Spring 1978, then twice yearly (Winter and Summer)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Bellman

Total Issues: 156

"Remarkable for the brilliance and power of its fiction" (Edward J. O'Brien)

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1906 – Dec-1919
Publishers:   The Bellman, Minneapolis
Editors:   William C. Edgar
Formats:   large format
Frequency:   monthly

Bellowing Ark

Runs poetry, short fiction and serialised novels. Says it features "work in the American Romantic tradition." Does not pay for contributions. Circulation about 800.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1984 – present
Publishers:   P. O. Box 45637, Seattle, WA 98145 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Robert R. Ward (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Beloit Fiction Journal

Founded by novelist Clint McCown; student-edited, but with a national circulation.

Issues & Index Sources:  1984 – present
Publishers:   Box 11, Beloit College, 700 College Street, Beloit, WI 53511 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.beloit.edu/english/bfj.php
Editors:   Fred Burwell (in 1998)
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Bentley's Miscellany

Total Issues: 384

Always published fiction, its best years were its first decade -- later issues shifted to literary criticism. Strong on serials: began with "Oliver Twist" (1837 - 1839) and Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" (1839 - 1840), illus by Cruikshank. Also reprinted Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" (Aug-1840).

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1837 – Dec-1868: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 4
Index to Periodical Literature

#merges with Temple Bar

Publishers

  Jan-1837 – Mar-1861: Richard Bentley
  Apr-1861 – Jun-1868: Chapman & Hall
  Jul-1868 – Dec-1868: Bentley, with other partners

Editors

  Jan-1837 – Feb-1839: Charles Dickens
  Mar-1839 – Dec-1841: William Harrison Ainsworth
  ?: Albert Smith
  ?: Shirley Brooks
  ?: George Bentley (final issues)

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  BritLit3

Bentley's Quarterly Review

Issues & Index Sources:  1859 – 1860: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 2
Index to Periodical Literature

Benziger's Magazine

A Catholic magazine started for children but progressively adapted as a wider family magazine. Carried some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1898 – Mar-1900, as Our Boys' and Girls' Own
  Apr-1900 – Feb-1921, as Benziger's Magazine

Frequency

  monthly

Berkeley Fiction Review

Total Issues: 21 (to Dec-2001)

A journal of contemporary short fiction and flash fiction by emerging and established writers. Has published John Blair, Wayne Harrison, Susan Steinberg. No payment. Circulation about 500.

Issues & Index Sources:  1981 – present
Publishers:   University of California, Berkeley, Student Publications.
Website:   www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr/
Editors:   various
Formats:   quarto review
Pagecounts:   180pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

The Bermondsey Book

Total Issues: 26?

Ran mostly working-class London fiction and non-fiction, but also published A. E. Coppard, Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1923 – Mar/Apr/May-1930

Publishers

  Cecil Palmer to Mar-1925, then William Heinemann

Editors

  1923 – 1925: anonymous but likely to have been Ethel Gutman
  1925 – 1930: anonymous but likely to have been Frederick Heath

Frequency

  quarterly

Sources

  BritLit4

Best

Women's magazine which publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1987 – ?
Publishers:   London
Editors:   Julie Akhurst (in 1998)
Frequency:   weekly

Best Budget

Total Issues: 12

Incorporated into Larks (comic).

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Mar-1902 – 31-May-1902
Publishers:   Trapps Holmes
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

Best Detective

Total Issues: 1

Seemingly a one-shot pulp by Exclusive Detective Stories (an imprint of Standard Magazines). Not to be confused with the long-running Best Detective Magazine from the 1930s.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1947: Pulp Magazine Index 1 (Missing: all except Dec-1947)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Exclusive Detective Stories (imprint of Standard Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Best Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1948 – ?
Publishers:   Universal Crime Stories Inc., 366 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   quarterly

Best Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 95+24+26=145

As Best Detective Magazine it was predominantly reprint, but when relaunched as Crime Busters it featured "all new stories" mainly with series characters such as "The Gadget Man" and "The Death Angel".

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Sep-1937: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1937 – Oct-1939, as Crime Busters: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1939 – May-1943, as Street & Smith's Mystery Magazine: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Street & Smith, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY

Editors

  Nov-1929 – Sep-1937: Frank E. Blackwell
  Nov-1937 – May-1943: John L. Nanovic

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Nov-1929 – Aug-1935: 25c
  Sep-1935 – May-1943: 10c (rose to 15c in 1940)

Pagecounts

  Nov-1929 – Aug-1935: 160pp
  Sep-1935 – May-1943: 128pp

Frequency

  monthly to Jul-1940; then bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Best Detective Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Best Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1935: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: All issues)
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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