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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)

Blood, Blade, and Thruster Magazine

Total Issues: 3

A print magazine that blends speculative fiction & satire. The third issues was only distributed (free) as a PDF file on the website.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-2006 – 2007
Website:   www.bbtmagazine.com

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
Issue Checklist

Bloodlines

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

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1993

Blood Moon Rising

Total Issues: 32 (to Jul-2007)

"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

Blood Oranges

Total Issues: 1 (to Oct-2008)

A magazine of horror and fantasy with each issue "posting variations on a single theme (in our case the theme is a quote)".

On hiatus since March 2008.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-2007
Publishers:   Blood Oranges Zine, P.O. Box 5182, Covington, LA 70433
Website:   www.bloodorangeszine.com
Editors:   Lacey Jenkins & Anna Marie
Prices:   $3.00
Frequency:   irregular

The Blood Review

Total Issues: 4

Semi-professional magazine. This was subtitled "The Journal of Horror Criticism", but it began to run fiction and by issue #4 had a substantial portion of fiction and poetry.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1989 – Oct-1990: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Villegas, Denver
Editors:   Ruben Sosa Villegas
Formats:   quasi-slick (paginations varied)
Prices:   $7
Pagecounts:   72pp
Frequency:   roughly quarterly

Blood Samples

Total Issues: 5?

"A magazine of vampire flash fiction and artwork. It focuses on non-traditional, humorous, and romantic vampire tales."

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-2001 – 2003?: Miller/Contento (Missing: all except #1 & #2)
Publishers:   Anxiety Publications, PMB 314, 101 Middlesex Tpke Ste 6, Burlington, MA 01803
Editors:   Kate Hill

Bloodsongs

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1994 – 1998: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  1994 – 1996: Bambada Press, Melbourne, Australia
  1997 – 1998: Implosion Publishing, 1921 E. Colonial Drive, 2nd Floor, Orlando, FL 32803

Website

  www.chrisamasters.com/bloodsongs/bloodsongs.html

Editors

  1994 – 1996: David G. Barnett
  1997 – 1998: Cynthia Ariel Conlin
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Blossom

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Blue Band Magazine

Total Issues: 1

This magazine may have been retitled from something as it began Vol.1 No.2. The Cover says November-December 1931 while the contents page says October-November.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct/Nov-1931: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Blue Band (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Bluebird

Total Issues: 100

Girls' paper. Incorporated into My Weekly (adult)

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Oct-1922 – 20-Sep-1924
Publishers:   D.C. Thomson
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   weekly

(The) Blue Book (Magazine)

Total Issues: 613 (Vol 1. No. 1 to Vol 103. No. 1)

One of the great general pulps. Later relaunched as a "rather tawdry sex/adventure mag" under the title Bluebook for Men.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1905 – Aug-1906,as The Monthly Story Magazine
Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines (partial data only)
Fictionmags Website
  Sep-1906 – Apr-1907,as The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine
Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines (partial data only)
Index to Blue Book Magazine (in progress)
  May-1907 – Jan-1952,as The Blue Book Magazine
Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines (partial data only)
Index to Blue Book Magazine (in progress)
  Feb-1952 – May-1956,as Bluebook
Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines (partial data only)

Publishers

  ?: Story-Press Corporation
  ?: Consolidated Magazines
  1929 – ?: McCall

Editors

  ?: Karl Edward Harriman
  1929 – Jan-1952: Donald Kennicott
  Feb-1952 – ?: Maxwell Hamilton
  mid 1950s: Andre Fontaine
  in 1956: Maxwell Hamilton
  ?: Frederick A. Birmingham

Formats

  pulp

Prices

  10c (rising to 15c)

Pagecounts

  192pp (rising to 224pp, later 240pp)

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Bluebook (for Men)

A rather tawdry successor to the classic Blue Book Magazine. By 1967 is called just Bluebook. Issues numbered Vol. 100 No. 1 to Vol. 114 No. 1.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1960 – Jan-1975? (possibly further issues)

Publishers

  Oct-1960 – ?: H.S. Publications
  Aug-1964 – Mar-1966: Hanro (Sterling)
  Apr-1967 – ?: QMG Magazine Corporation

Editors

  Oct-1960 – ?: Maxwell Hamilton
  in 1967: B.R. Ampolsk

Formats

  slick

Frequency

  monthly (some issues bi-monthly)
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The Blue Magazine

Total Issues: 121

Concentrated mostly on adventure, mystery and light romance. Authors include Oliver Sandys, P.C. Wren, William Hope Hodgson, L.A.G. Strong, W.L. George, Ethel Mannin, A.M. Burrage. By late 20s had become a women's romance magazine with a society slant. By final issues had grown to 128pp, 1/- and included illustrations.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1919 – Aug-1929: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (Missing: Oct-1928)

Publishers

  Jul-1919 – Jun-1926: Walbrook & Co., London
  Jul-1926 – Dec-1926: William Southern
  Jan-1927 – Jul/Aug-1928: F.J. Parsons for The Blue Magazine Company
  Sep-1928 – Aug-1929: Link House

Editors

  Robert Sievier?; possibly Frank Sellicks to 1926?

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Jul-1919 – Jan-1920: 7d
  Feb-1920 – Aug-1920: 9d
  Sep-1920 – Aug-1929: 1/-

Pagecounts

  Jul-1919 – Jan-1928: 96pp
  Feb-1928 – Aug-1928: 104pp
  Sep-1928 – Aug-1929: 128pp

Frequency

  monthly (but combined Jul/Aug-1928 issue)

Sources

  AgeStory

The Blue Moon

Total Issues: 7?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1920 – Jun-1921: Fictionmags Website (incomplete)
Publishers:   Clayton Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

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