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Bedtime Stories

Country: US

Risque Stories and Illustrations with Nude Photos. Revived briefly c. 1939/40.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1932 – 1940?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Nov-1932 – Sep-1934: Regal Publishing Co.
  Oct-1934 – Jun-1937: Detinuer Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware
  Jul-1937 – Aug-1938?: D.M. Publishing

Prices

25c

Pagecounts

68pp

Mentioned in: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Bedtime Stories (UK)

Country: UK

Believed to be a British reprint edition of Bedtime Stories although the issues list a US publisher and price.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: B.T. Publishing Co., Inc., Dover, DE


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Bedtime Tales [1930s]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)


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Bedtime Tales [1940s]

Country: Canada

Subtitled "A Magazine of Good Humour"; unclear if it ran any fiction but it seems likely.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Pagecounts: 96pp

The Bee

Country: UK

A review/miscellany. Most stories anonymous. May have published Richard Adams Locke; vol. 2 entitled The Queen Bee and vol.3 The Working Bee.

Issues & Index Sources: 1820 – 1823

Publishers:   published in Liverpool
Formats:   octavo
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 1

Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine

see under The Boy's Own Magazine (UK)

Beeton's Christmas Annual

Country: UK

A successful paperback magazine notorious for insulting satires on the royal family and associated hangers-on. The 1887 issue contained the first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlet".

Issues & Index Sources: 1860 – 1897:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Editors:   Samuel Orchart Beeton
Frequency:   annual
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

Beginnings

Country: US

Subtitled "a magazine for the novice writer".

Issues & Index Sources: 1998 – ?

Website:   www.scbeginnings.com
Publishers:   Jenine Boisits
Editors:   Jenine Boisits
Formats:   8" x 10"
Prices:   $5.50
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Behind the Mask

Country: US
Total Issues: 71

Facsimile reprints of classic pulp stories.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1989 – Winter 2005:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers

Fading Shadows, Inc.

Editors

Tom & Ginger Johnson

Prices

$5.00

Frequency

  May-1989 – Fall 1991: quarterly
  Jan-1992 – May-1995: bimonthly
  Summer 1995 – Winter 2005: quarterly



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Behind the Scene

see under Scene

The Belfast Magazine and Literary Journal

Country: Ireland

Issues & Index Sources:  1825

Publishers:   Morgan Jellett, Commercial Buildings, Belfast
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

The Belfast Monthly Magazine

Country: Ireland
Total Issues: 77

A general magazine that very, very occasionally published fiction

Issues & Index Sources: 1808 – 1814

Publishers:   published in Belfast
Editors:   Dr. William Drennan
Frequency:   monthly

Belford, Clark & Co. Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 550

Identical to the Keystone Library distributed by John Wanamaker.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1890s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Belford, Clarke, & Co., Chicago
Formats:   7 x 5¾"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250-300
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Belford's Chatterbox

Country: US

Stories, poems, news events of the day, educational information -- a wide ranging collection of reading for young readers.

Issues & Index Sources: 1884 – 1890

Publishers:   Belford, Clarke, & Co., Chicago
Editors:   Thomas W. Handford
Frequency:   annual

The Belford Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1899: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Alexander Belford & Co., 277 Dearborn St., Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Belford's Magazine [1876]

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 19

Authors include Susanna Moodie, J.G. Bourinet, James Payne, Walter Besant, James Rice, Charles Sangster; merged with Canadian Monthly and National Review to form Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1876 – Jun-1878

Publishers:   Belford Brothers, Toronto
Formats:   standard
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Online Sources:   Online Books

Belford's Magazine [1888]

Country: US
Total Issues: 63

Many essays and reviews; one or two stories per issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1888 – Aug-1891

Sep-1891 – Mar-1892, as Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review

Apr-1892 – Jul-1893, as Belford's Monthly

Publishers

Belford, Clarke & Co., Chicago

Editors

Donn Piatt except for approx. Jun-1889 - Jun-1891 when Alvah Milton Kerr was editor

Formats

standard

Pagecounts

60pp

Frequency

monthly

Belgravia

Country: UK
Total Issues: 392+52=444

Circulation peaked at 18,000 in 1868; published much of Braddon's early work, also G.A. Sala and Sheridan Le Fanu; C&W took the magazine more upmarket with fiction by Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy and early work by Conan Doyle; under White quality declined.

In addition to the monthly issues there were 30 Christmas Annuals published from 1867 to 1896 and 22 Holiday (Summer) Annuals published from 1876 to 1897.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1866 – Jun-1899:	Indexes to Fiction #14: Belgravia	(FicMags sample issues only)
	FictionMags Index	(FicMags sample issues only)

Publishers

  Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: John Maxwell
  May-1876 – Sep-1889: Chatto & Windus
  Oct-1889 – Mar-1897: F.V. White
  Apr-1897 – Dec-1897?: Biggs & Co.
  Jan-1898? – Oct-1898: May, Wyatt & Co.
  Nov-1898 – Jun-1899: A.F. May

Editors

Nov-1866 – Apr-1876: Mary E. Braddon
May-1876 – Sep-1889: Andrew Chatto

Formats

standard (in imitation of The Cornhill)

Prices

1/-

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

  Internet Archive
  Online Books
  Online Books



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