Total Issues: 299+6+5?=310

A very off-trail magazine which liked to publish unusual stories and featured a large amount of fantasy in its early years. Authors include Jack London, Octavus Roy Cohen, Ellis Parker Butler, Cleveland Moffett, Harry Stephen Keeler, Frank Lillie Pollock.

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Total Issues: 25

Subtitled "A monthly magazine of Short Stories and Bright Literature by the Best Writers," this was not a British edition of the American original. Published mostly mystery stories and some ghost stories. Material by Fergus Hume, J. Colne Dacre, Percy J. Barrow, E.M. Critchley and Erskine M. Hamilton.

Styled itself The Black Cat Penny Stories on the cover of the final two issues.

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Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine. One of many publications issued by George Henderson, a prominent Toronto dealer in "nostalgia" merchandise. This collection of public domain reprints was his only all-fiction title. The magazine was cancelled when the distributor went bust.

Total Issues: 6

Mixture of reprint and new stories, both mystery and supernatural. All issues of this magazine have the same cover illustration - the head of a black cat in a circle.

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"Features work by some of the most prominent writers of our time, talented regional authors, and the very best of what is produced within the MFA Writing Program".

Total Issues: 13 (to Jul-2009)

"Black Gate is a quarterly magazine of epic fantasy fiction. It publishes news, reviews, interviews, and original short stories from the best names in adventure fantasy. Black Gate covers virtually every aspect of modern fantasy -- books, movies, comics, adventure gaming, role playing games, and much more."

Digest-sized, black and white magazine of horror fiction and art with a classical aesthetic.

Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

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

Total Issues: 340

Black Mask started life fairly innocuously as a general pulp running all types of fiction from adventure to romance to westerns. However, it was the advent of Joseph T. Shaw as editor in November 1926 that saw Black Mask transformed into what is generally regarded as the finest detective pulp magazine ever published. Even though Shaw was fired in 1936, the magazine continued with a consistently high standard into the early 1950s, reaching a total of 340 issues.

See also A Comprehensive Index to Black Mask, 1920-1951 by E.R. Hagemann (Popular Press, 1982).

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#merges with Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

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Initially a Canadian reprint edition of Black Mask; later reprinted stories from other US detective pulps.

Total Issues: 204+120=324

British reprint edition of Black Mask. There were two distinct series. The first series ran for 204 issues from Jun-1923 to Oct-1939. This series was printed in the US for UK distribution; had the same covers as the US editions apart for UK price (sometimes); and reprinted the entire contents of the US edition, plus frequently an additional story or two. Initially the additional stories were reprinted from US issues that had not appeared in the UK but in later issues no prior appearance can be traced (in Black Mask or anywhere else) so they might be original stories that ONLY appeared in the UK issues. The numbering system on these issues was specific to the US issues and ran from v1 #1 to v17 #12.

The second series ran for 120 issues from Nov-1939 to Nov-1953 (at least). This series was printed in the UK; had different covers to the US issues; typically was a partial reprint of assorted US issues, initially of Black Mask but in later years of other magazines such as Dime Detective. Atlas used a strange numbering system on these (consistent with all the other US pulps they distributed during this period) - initially they used the volume/issue number of the corresponding US issue, then they had no volume/issue numbers at all, and then they settled into a UK-specific numbering that was implicitly backdated to the first Atlas issue.

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Total Issues: 1

Reprint issue; see also New Black Mask. Note that Keith Alan Deutsch negotiated the purchase of the "Title" Black Mask Magazine from Fred Dannay, while Adrian Lopez "bankrolled" the enterprise. A second issue was finished, but never went to press because Lopez bought TRUE magazine.

Total Issues: 7

The magazine of gothic and psychological horror, including fiction, poetry, artwork, reviews, essays, and more.

Total Issues: 22+1+2=25

A journal of African and Afro-American literature.

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Total Issues: 39 (to Dec-2007)