Publishes fiction, poetry, essays, drama, interviews with a variety of special thematic issues. See Paper Guitar: 25 Years of Descant ed. Karen Mulholland (HarperCollins, 1995)

A forum for fiction and poetry, descant seeks high-quality work in either innovative or traditional form. Fiction is customarily 5000 words or less, poems 60 lines or fewer. We do, however, occasionally accept MSS exceeding these lengths. descant specifies no particular subject matter or style.

Address in 1998 was Dept. of English, Texas Christian University, Box 32872, Fort Worth, TX 76129.

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Originally a women's fashion magazine, in the 1920s it began to compete with The Delineator as a fiction-bearing publication; a sample 1925 issue contains: "'The Blind Goddess,' a new novel by Arthur Train," and "other fiction by Royal Brown, Octavus Roy Cohen, Dana Gatlin"; it absorbed The Woman's Magazine in April 1920.

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Total Issues: 11

A paperback anthology series that was a magazine in everything but physical format; also had spin-off volume Proteus (May-1981). When Jim Baen founded his own paperback house, he issued two similar anthology series which could be considered successors: see Far Frontiers and New Destinies.

Total Issues: 10

Amateur magazine.

Total Issues: 3

A very rare, and short-lived, magazine which was unusual in that the lead story actually started on the cover of the magazine.

Total Issues: 8?

British reprint edition of Ten Detective Aces, including some stories from Lone Wolf Detective and one from Marvel Science Stories!.

Total Issues: 19+9=28

Detective Action Stories was one of the first four magazines published in October 1930 by the then-new partnership of Henry Steeger and Harold Goldsmith that was to become so well-recognised as Popular Publications. However Detective Action Stories was never a great success, running for only 19 monthly issues until April 1932. It was briefly relaunched four years later (in October 1936) but lasted for only a further 9 issues before folding for good.

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A magazine rumoured to exist but, like the publisher's name suggests, has been seen by very few.

Total Issues: 4+1=5

Of the same title as an earlier magazine published by Associated Authors, Inc., this pulp magazine first appeared in March 1939 featuring one of the early marijuana stories, and is noted for its garish and weird covers often featuring torture and mayhem.

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Total Issues: 18+47=65

Detective Book Magazine was published by Fiction House and emphasized a complete, unabridged, book-length detective novel in each issue, supported by a couple of short stories. Initially it was not particularly successful, running for only 18 monthly issues before folding in September 1931. However it was revived some six years later, in Fall 1937, and continued on a fairly regularly quarterly schedule for a further fifteen years, notching up a reasonable total of 65 issues.

Note that many (possibly all) of the novels in the second series were abridged.

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Total Issues: 3?

One of the many British magazines in the 1940s published as a series of booklets with different titles to avoid paper restrictions. Three issues are known, but others may exist.

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Total Issues: 4+22=26

Detective Classics was an early detective pulp from Fiction House that actually started life as a war pulp titled Soldier Stories. After only four issues under that name it switched to a detective pulp, under the name Detective Classics, as which it continued for another 22 monthly issues. Each issue typically featured a lead novel followed by a small number of columns and short stories.

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Total Issues: 3?

Very elusive magazine; issues not seen and total run uncertain. Richard Bleiler has confirmed it is non-fiction.

Total Issues: 1+3=4

Detective Dime Novels was launched in the wake of the suddent revival of interest in single-character pulp magazines in 1940, and featured Dr. Thaddeus Harker. With the second issue it was renamed to Red Star Detective and folded a mere three issues later.

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True crime.