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Arc (1985)

Country: Canada

Poetry magazine featuring "poetry that is woozy, yap-happy, cunning and smoking, and prose that offers a new perspective on the verse you thought you knew".

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1978 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website: www.arcpoetry.ca

Arc (2012)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6

Although subtitled "a new digital magazine about the future", a "collectible print edition" was also made available for the first four issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-2012 – Apr-2014:

Science Fiction Index

Website:   www.arcfinity.org
Editors:   Simon Ings & Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Formats:   ebook



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Arcadian Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 56

Issues & Index Sources:  1895 – 1896: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issues only)

Publishers:   Optimus Printing, 31 Rose St, New York
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   Semi-Weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Arcana

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943

Publishers: Harry Honig

Arcane

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Subtitled "Penny Dreadfuls for the 21st century", Arcane is "a fiction magazine concentrating on weird horror, the supernatural and the fantastic". The only issue was subsequently retitled ARCANE SAMPLER and sold as an anthology.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 2011:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Cold Fusion Media Empire
Editors:   Nathan Shumate
Prices:   $7.99


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Arcanum

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1990: Science Fiction Index

Publishers: S.L. Sennitt, Mexborough, UK.


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The Arch [1920s]

Country: US

Student literary magazine of New York University.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1920s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: New York University

Arch [1953]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d

The Archive

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1887 – 1924, as The Trinity Archive

1924 – present, as The Archive:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website: dukearchive.wordpress.com

Publishers

Students of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Editors

James P. Helm III (in 1935)

Formats

12" by 9.25"

Prices

30c (in 1935)

Pagecounts

28pp (in 1935)

Frequency

monthly

Archive of the Odd

Country: US
Total Issues: 5 (as at Jul-2025)

Archive of the Odd is a zine that celebrates the weird and wonderful both in terms of story and format. We want to provide stories that engage readers and inspire them to look at both fiction and the world around them in a new way.

Issues & Index Sources: v1 #1, 2022 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any issues after v3 #1, 2025)

Website:   www.archiveoftheodd.com
Publishers:   Archive of the Odd
Editors:   E V Smith



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Arcturus [1840]

Country: US
Total Issues: 18

Ran Mathews's satire "The Career of Puffer Hopkins" (1841/1842). Other authors include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1840 – May-1842

Publishers

1840 – 1841: B.G. Trevett
1841 – 1842: G.L. Curry & Co

Editors

Cornelius Mathews & Every Duychinck

Frequency

monthly

Arcturus [1935]

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Fanzine. An 8th issue (April 1937) was planned but never published.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1935 – Jan-1937

Publishers: East New York Science Fiction League, 928 New Lots Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Editors: Harold W Kirshenblit

Ardentia

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers: University of Missouri

Ardent Love

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1934 – May-1934: FictionMags Index (Missing: Jan-1934; Feb-1934)

Publishers:   Magazines, Inc. (A.A. Wyn)
Editors:   Rose Wyn
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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The Arena [1889]

Country: US
Total Issues: 233

A noted 'muckraking' magazine which also published much fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1889 – Aug-1909:

Index to Periodical Literature

(to 1906 only)

Publishers:   Arena Pub Co., Boston
Editors:   B. O. Flowes
Frequency:   monthly, but no issues Apr-1909 - Jun-1909
Related Sites:   Spartacus Educational
Online Sources:   Online Books

The Arena [1949]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1949 – 1952: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   Arena, 28/29 Southampton Street, London WC1
Editors:   Jack Lindsay
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/6d
Frequency:   bimonthly