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The Celtic Magazine

Total Issues: 156

Published a lot of Gaelic fiction translated into English, particularly folk tales and hero tales.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1875 – Oct-1888
Publishers:   MacKenzie, Inverness
Editors:   Alexander MacKenzie & Alexander MacGregor; later Alexander MacBain
Formats:   standard
Frequency:   monthly

The Celtic Review

Mostly non-fiction but does publish stories of Celtic interest; circulation 5,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – ?
Publishers:   Celtic Publications, Isle of Man
Editors:   Robert Watson
Frequency:   quarterly

Cemetery Dance

Total Issues: 60 (to Sep-2009)

"Cemetery Dance is the World Fantasy Award-winning magazine of horror, dark mystery, and suspense. Published bi-monthly, each issue is packed with almost 100 pages of short stories, articles, columns, interviews, news, and reviews!"

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1988 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Cemetery Dance, Box 190238, Burton, MI 48519
Website:   www.cemeterydance.com/
Editors:   Richard T. Chizmar; William K. Schafer
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   quarterly, with gaps
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Cenotaph

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  1997 – 1999: Miller/Contento

Centennial Magazine

Total Issues: 26

Format was very similar to Blackwoods in the UK. Catherine Helen Spence's SF novel, A Week in the Future, was serialised in it.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1888 – Sep-1890: Fictionmags Website
Editors:   Ernest Blackwell
Formats:   octavo
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   monthly

Century

Total Issues: 7

"Century publishes stories in a broad spectrum of styles, subjects, and lengths (anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 words)." On hiatus since death of Jenna Felice in 2001, but planning to return to active publication sometime in 2004.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1994 – Jan/Feb-1996: Miller/Contento
  Winter 2000 – Spring 2000: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Century Publishing, PO Box 150510, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Editors

  Robert Killheffer

Formats

  large digest

Prices

  $5.95

Pagecounts

  144pp

Frequency

  quarterly
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The Century Magazine

As Scribner's Monthly it published some important fiction by Frank R. Stockton, Edward Bellamy, Bret Harte, George Cable, Julian Hawthorne, Helen Hunt Jackson, Joel Chandler Harris, Edward Page Mitchell, Thomas Nelson Page. As Century its circulation peaked at 200,000 (in 1889). Authors included Mark Twain, Jack London, Silas Weir Mitchell, F. Marion Crawford; started as Scribner's Monthly and retitled The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1881; merged with The Forum, 1930.

Absorbed Hours at home Nov-1870; Putnam's magazine Dec-1870; Riverside magazine 1870; Old and new 1875

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1870 – Oct-1881, as Scribner's Monthly: Index to Periodical Literature
  Nov-1881 – Oct-1925, as The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: Index to Periodical Literature (Poole to 1906 only; Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only)
The Standard Index of Short Stories
  Nov-1925 – Spring 1930, as The Century Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1870 – 1881: Scribner's
  1881 – 1930: The Century Co., 353 Fourth Avenue, New York

Editors

  Nov-1870 – Oct-1881: Josiah G. Holland
  Nov-1881 – 1909: Richard Watson Gilder
  1909 – 1913: Robert U. Johnson
  1915 – 1918: Douglas Z. Doty
  1919: T.R. Smith
  1920 – 1921: W. Morgan Shuster
  1921 – 1925: Glenn Frank
  1925 – 1930: Hewitt H. Howland

Formats

  standard imitation-Harper

Frequency

  monthly (last 3 issues quarterly)
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Certified Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   William H. Wise & Co., 50 W. 47th St., New York, NY
Frequency:   monthly

Chacal

Total Issues: 2

Semi-professional magazine. Shayol, from the same editors, was a replacement for this title.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1976 – Spring 1977: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Arnie Fenner
Editors:   Byron Roark #1; Arnie Fenner & Pat Cadigan #2
Formats:   slick
Prices:   $3.50
Pagecounts:   58pp-72pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Challenge for Men

Total Issues: 30+

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1955 – Oct-1959?
Publishers:   Almat
Sources:   MansWorld
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Challenging Destiny

Total Issues: 17

A quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine that's produced in Canada but showcases stories and illustrations from all over the world. Went online after #17.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1997 – Dec-2003: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Crystalline Sphere Publishing, 47 Bridgeport Rd E, Waterloo N2J 2J4, Ontario, Canada
Website:   www.challengingdestiny.com
Editors:   David M. Switzer & Robert P. Switzer
Formats:   octavo s/b
Prices:   C$7.50
Pagecounts:   128+
Frequency:   irregular
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Total Issues: 4143

The first cheap popular middlebrow magazine, with emphasis on short tales and occasional serials. Circulation reached 50,000 by third issue and 80,000 soon after. Authors include Mayne Reid, Grant Allen, Walter Besant, Conan Doyle (his first, "Mystery of Sasassa Valley" 6-Sep-1879).

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Feb-1832 – 1854: Index to Periodical Literature (missing all before 1841)
  7-Jan-1854 – 27-Nov-1897, as Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts: Indexes to Fiction #17: Chamber's Journal
  4-Dec-1897 – Dec-1956, as Chambers's Journal: Indexes to Fiction #17: Chamber's Journal (IdxChmJ to 1910 only; FicMags sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh

Editors

  1832 – 1837: William Chambers
  1837 – 1842: Thomas Smibert
  1842 – 1844: William H. Willis
  1845 – 1858: Leitch Ritchie
  1858 – 1873: James Payn
  1873 – 1888: Robert Chambers, Jr.
  1888 – 1910: Charles E.S. Chambers

Formats

  initially 8-page unillustrated tabloid at 1d; became a standard-format magazine on quality book paper

Frequency

  4-Feb-1832 – 28-Nov-1931: weekly
  Jan-1932 – Dec-1956: monthly

Sources

  BritLit2, BritLit3, AgeStory

Chambers's London Journal

An opportunist paper capitalising on the success of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. A miscellany of fiction and essays.

Issues & Index Sources:  5-Jun-1841 – 28-Oct-1843
Publishers:   William Strange
Editors:   Edward Litt Blanchard to 14-Jan-1843, then G.W.M. Reynolds
Frequency:   weekly
Sources:   BritLit3

The Chameleon

Total Issues: 1

THE CHAMELEON is definitely a magazine, even though there was only one issue and that was limited to 100 copies. The editor was John Francis Bloxam (1873-1928), a young high churchman with a fondness for boys, who contributed the anonymous "The Priest and the Acolyte". The other fiction contribution was by John Gambril Francis Nicholson (1866-1931), a school teacher with a similar sexual orientation. Another contributor was Oscar Wilde who had "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use Of The Young" published in the magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1894: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gay & Bird
Editors:   John Francis Bloxham
Pagecounts:   60pp

Chamney's Illustrated Journal

Contained fiction, poetry, biography, etc.

Issues & Index Sources:  1868
Publishers:   Chamney, Dublin
Formats:   2d
Frequency:   monthly

Champ

Total Issues: 6+

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1957 – 1958?
Publishers:   Hillman Periodicals
Sources:   MansWorld

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