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Dell Mystery Novels Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Dell Mystery Novels published a combination of short, hard-boiled, mystery novels and novelettes. Its first (and only) issue featured a new. short, Mike Shayne novel.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan/Mar-1955: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Dell Publishing, N.Y.
Editors:   Don Ward
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   planned as quarterly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Dementia

Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1986: Miller/Contento

Dementia 13

Fanzine featuring some horror fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  in 1990s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Pam Creais

Editors

  Pam Creais

Formats

  A4

Prices

  in 1992: £1.75
  in 1994: £2.30

Pagecounts

  in 1992: 50pp
  in 1994: 66pp

Democratic Review

Alongside mostly political commentary it published many stories including work by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe, Whittier, Walt Whitman, J.H. Ingraham (although its full title for most of its life was The United States Magazine and Democratic Review)

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1837 – Oct-1859: Index to Periodical Literature

Publishers

  many and varied, seldom for more than a year or two

Editors

  1837 – 1846: John L. O'Sullivan & S.D. Langtree
  1846 – 1851: Thomas P. Kettell
  1852: George N. Sanders
  1853: Theodore Foster
  1854 – 1855: D.W. Holly
  1856: Spencer Cone
  1857 – 1859: Conrad Swackhamer

Frequency

  monthly

Demorest's Monthly Magazine

Printed R.L. Stevenson in the 1890s; briefly Demorest's Illustrated Monthly at outset; became Demorest's Family Magazine from 1889.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1865 – Oct-1899

Publishers

  1865 – 1885: W. Jennings Demorest
  1885 – 1897: H.C. & W.C. Demorest
  1898 – 1899: Arkell Publishing

Editors

  as publishers

Formats

  small quarto; $3 a year

Frequency

  monthly

Demure

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Denver Quarterly

Address in 1998 was University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208.

One of the premier literary magazines of the American west. Encourages fiction and commentary which looks are changes in modern culture. Has published James Tate, Ann Lauterbach. Circulation about 900.

Issues & Index Sources

  Spring 1966 – present

Publishers

  University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208 (in 2000 - 2002)

Website

  www.denverquarterly.com

Editors

  in 1970: John Williams
  in 1998 – present: Bin Ramke

Formats

  review

Pagecounts

  140pp

Frequency

  quarterly

Sources

  OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Descant (Canada)

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)

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1970 – present
Publishers:   Descant, P.O. Box 314, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2S8 (in 1998)
Editors:   Karen Mulhallen
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   130pp
Frequency:   quarterly (#100 Spring 1998)

Descant (US)

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.

Issues & Index Sources

  1957 – present

Publishers

  Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

Editors

  in 1998: Neal Easterbrook, Editor
  in 2002: Dave Kuhne and Lynne Risser

Frequency

  twice-yearly

The Designer

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.

Issues & Index Sources

  1894? – Jul-1898, as Standard Designer
  Aug-1898 – Mar-1920, as The Designer: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Apr-1920 – Oct-1926, as The Designer and The Woman's Magazine

Formats

  big slick

Frequency

  monthly

Desires of Darkness

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Park Trading Company, 14 Portland Road, London W11

Destinies

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1978 – Aug-1981: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Ace Books
Editors:   James Baen
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   $2.25
Pagecounts:   average 300pp
Frequency:   roughly quarterly
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Destiny

Total Issues: 10

Amateur magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1950 – Fall 1954: Miller/Contento

Detective [1940]

True crime. Compilation of stories from Official Detective, Intimate Detective and Actual Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  1940 – ?
Publishers:   Detective Stories Publishing Co., 731 Plymouth Ct., Chicago, IL
Frequency:   quarterly

Detective [1933]

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1933 – Jan-1934: Cook/Miller (Missing: Jan-1934)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Delo Publications; Myrick Bldg., Springfield, MA.
Formats:   bedsheet
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Detective [1947]

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1947 – ?
Publishers:   Bernarr MacFadden


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