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Fact Detective Stories

Total Issues: 2

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1939 – May-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issue)
Publishers:   Fact Magazines
Editors:   G. Grey
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Fact Spy Stories

Total Issues: 3 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1939 – Sep-1939?
Publishers:   Fact Magazines
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Factual Detective Stories

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s

Fads and Fancies

Subtitled "The Smart Sport and Fashions Monthly" contained letters from readers as well as articles and fiction about horses, plus the comic story "The Adventures of Delia".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s
Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
 

Fairfax

A magazine of short stories and short novels by Black Americans and other voices.

Issues & Index Sources:  Autumn 1991 – present
Publishers:   C.H. Fairfax, Columbia, Md.
Website:   www.yougetpublished.com
Frequency:   quarterly

Fairies

Total Issues: 67

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1940 – Jan-1951
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   small format, 51-63; larger format, 64-67
Pagecounts:   36pp

Fairy Corner

see under White House Fairy Corner

Fairyland Tales

Total Issues: 902

Contained fairy tales, animal and school stories aimed at children 6-12 years of age.

Issues & Index Sources:  24-Nov-1921 – 25-Nov-1939 (not published 29-May-1926 - 15-Jan-1927)
Publishers:   John Leng, Bank Street, Dundee
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   44pp
Frequency:   fortnightly; weekly

Faithful Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1947: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Rayburn Productions, 76 Farleigh Road, London N.6
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

Falcon

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1970 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Mansfield State College, Mansfield, Pennsylvania
Editors:   W.A. Blais (in 1972)
Formats:   tall-digest heavy-paper little-magazine format, perfect-bound
Prices:   $1 (in 1972)
Pagecounts:   148pp

Fame and Fortune

Total Issues: 17+6=23

Note: really a continuation of the nickel weekly Fame and Fortune Weekly (6-Oct-1905 - 7-Sep-1928; 1197 issues) originally published by Frank Tousey.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1928 – Jun-1929: Index to Fame & Fortune / Fortune Story
  Jul-1929 – Dec-1929, as Fortune Story Magazine: Index to Fame & Fortune / Fortune Story

Publishers

  Street & Smith

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  twice-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide

Fame and Fortune Weekly

Total Issues: 1197

Subtitled "Stories of Boys Who Make Money", it ran short stories and serials, largely reprinted from earlier Tousey publications.

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Formats:   6" x 8"
Prices:   5c to 8c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
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Family

"Short stories, 1000 to 3000 words".

Issues & Index Sources:  1961 – ?
Publishers:   Longacre Press Ltd, 161 Fleet St., London EC4
Editors:   Carole Findlater (in 1962)
Frequency:   quarterly

Family Circle (US)

A magazine sold through supermarkets. Began as a freebie, but in 1946 converted to a women's service magazine. Carries occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  1932 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Harry Evans (at outset)

Website

  www.familycircle.com

Formats

  1932 – 1945: tabloid
  1946 – present: slick

Prices

  5c in 1946

Pagecounts

  1932 – 1945: 24pp

Frequency

  weekly to Sep-1946; then monthly
 

Family Circle (UK)

Mostly non-fiction written in-house; publishes short-short stories of women's interest.

Issues & Index Sources:  1964 – 2006
Publishers:   IPC
Website:   www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/fcircle/
Editors:   Sue James; Karen Livermore (in 2004)
Frequency:   thirteen a year

The Family Favourite

Total Issues: 58

Incorporated into: Home Companion

Issues & Index Sources:  20-Feb-1915 – 18-Mar-1916
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press

Family Fiction {Magazine}

Total Issues: 5?

Subtitled "stories for the family, for all moods, all ages and all tastes."

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1946 – Nov/Dec-1947?

Publishers

  Dec-1946 – Jun/Jul-1947: Acorn Features, Chantry Close, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex
  Aug/Sep-1947 – Nov/Dec-1947?: Horbron Features, 149 Somerset St., Abertillery, Mons.

Editors

  Major H.R. Phillips

Formats

  pocketbook

Prices

  9d

Frequency

  bi-monthly


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