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Black Tulip Thriller Romances

Not a magazine but a series of romantic novellas published by Fleetway Publications in 1959.

Black Warrior Review

Total Issues: 56 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes new writings from both established and emerging writers. Has published Billy Collins, Barry Hannah, Dev Hathaway. Payment for contributions. Circulation 3,000.

Issues & Index Sources

Fall 1974 – present

Publishers

University of Alabama, P.O. Box 862936, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0027 (in 1998 - 2002)

Website

webdelsol.com/bwr/ (or www.sa.ua.edu/osm/bwr)

Editors

  in 1994: Mark S. Drew
  in 1998: Mindy Wilson
  in 2000: Laura Didyk

Formats

review

Pagecounts

200pp

Frequency

twice yearly

Sources

OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Blackwood's (Edinburgh) Magazine

Total Issues: 1982

Arguably the most influential magazine of the Victorian period and called, by Sutherland "the outstanding magazine vehicle for fiction in the nineteenth century." Set the standard and format imitated by many. Authors include John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg, Samuel Warren, Bulwer Lytton, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan ("The 39 Steps" 1915) and many more. entitled Edinburgh Monthly Magazine for first six issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1817 – Dec-1900:	The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 1
	Index to Periodical Literature

Jan-1901 – Dec-1980:

An Index to Blackwood's Magazine

Publishers

William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh

Editors

  Apr-1817 – Sep-1817: James Cleghorn & Thomas Pringle
  Oct-1817 – Sep-1834: William Blackwood
  Sep-1834 – Apr-1845: Alexander Blackwood
  May-1845 – Oct-1879: John Blackwood
  Nov-1879 – 1912: William Blackwood
  1912 – 1942: George William Blackwood
  1942 – 1948: James Hugh Blackwood
  1948 – 1976: George Douglas Blackwood
  1976 – 1979: David Fletcher
  1980: Michael Blackwood

Formats

standard (unillustrated)

Frequency

monthly (quarterly for last few issues)

Related Sites

www.qmu.ac.uk/mcs/mcc/Blackwoods/

Sources

BritLit2, BritLit4, AgeStory

The Blade

Issues & Index Sources: 1847 – 1924

Publishers:   Toledo, Ohio
Editors:   "Petroleum V. Nasby"
Frequency:   weekly

Blast..Review of the Great English Vortex

Total Issues: 2

A little magazine, short-lived but a world-shaker; published fiction by Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1914 – Jul-1915:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers:   John Lane, The Bodley Head, London
Editors:   Wyndham Lewis
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   BritLit4

Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories

Total Issues: 5

A short-lived little magazine that included stories by Ed Lacy and Walter Carlos Williams.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep/Oct-1933 – Oct/Nov-1934

Publishers: New York
Frequency: bimonthly

Blast Off

A literary magazine for elementary-school children.

Issues & Index Sources: 1916 – present

Publishers: Department of Education and Training, Sydney, New South Wales

Blaze

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Blazing Armadillo Stories

Total Issues: 3

Blazing Armadillo Stories was a three-issue fanzine that preceded Spicy Armadillo Stories. It carried Armadillo stories as well as new fiction by Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Basil Wells.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: Gerald Page, 193 Battery Place, Atlanta, GA 30307
Editors: Gerald Page

Blazing Guns

Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1956 – Apr-1957?:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Feb-1947, any after Apr-1957)

Publishers:   Arnold Magazines, Inc.
Editors:   Alfred Grenet
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp

Blazing Western

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1947:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Trojan Publishing, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Blighty (Parade)

see under Parade

Blimey

Small, thin, story-paper. The issue examined (Feb-1944) contained two stories, assorted cartoons (mainly saucy) and a very bad limerick.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1939 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Press Services Syndicate, 802 Africa House, Rissik, Johannesburg, South Africa
Editors:   Hank Margolies
Formats:   4.8" x 7.2"
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   24pp

Blonde on Blonde

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1988:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Jeff Troiano
Editors:   Jeff Troiano
Formats:   11.5" x 17"
Pagecounts:   20pp

Blood & Aphorisms

Innovative literary magazine of stories, poetry, reviews etc., and an annual fiction contest. See anthology Stories from Blood & Aphorisms by Timothy Paleczny (Gutter Press, 1993).

Issues & Index Sources: ? – present

Publishers:   Blood & Aphorisms, P.O. Box 702, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2Y4, Canada (in 2002)
Editors:   Dennis Block & Michelle Alfano
Formats:   large digest
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2000; in 2002)

Bloodhound Detective Story Magazine

Total Issues: 14

A reprint of the US Manhunt, though not issue-by-issue; ran new illustrations

Issues & Index Sources: May-1961 – Jun-1962:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   T.V. Boardman, London
Editors:   Tom Boardman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly except last issue
Sources:   CookMDE


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Bloodlines

Small press horror magazine containing at least 1 story by D.F. Lewis.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1993

Blood Moon Rising

Total Issues: 27 (to Dec-2005)

"The magazine for all things horror." Includes a handful of stories in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 2000? – present:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #1, #2, #3)

Publishers:   Sapphire Publications
Website:   www.bloodmoonrising.com
Editors:   Al Vermette
Prices:   $5
Frequency:   bi-monthly