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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

Fairy Tale Review

Total Issues: 11 (as at Aug-2015)

An annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy-tale fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Issues & Index Sources:  2005 – present: FictionMags Index (Missing: all after #8, 2012)
Publishers:   Wayne State University Press
Website:   www.wsupress.wayne.edu/journals/detail/fairy-tale-review
Editors:   Kate Bernheimer
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Faithful Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

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

Falcon
Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1970 – ?: FictionMags Index (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: 1197+17+6=1220

Started as a nickel weekly, subtitled "Stories of Boys Who Make Money", which ran short stories and serials, largely reprinted from earlier Tousey publications. Changed to a pulp in 1928 which changed names after 17 issues and then folded after a further 6.

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928, as Fame and Fortune Weekly: Dime Novel Bibliography (Missing: some secondary stories)
  Oct-1928 – Jun-1929, as Fame and Fortune Magazine: General Fiction Index
  Jul-1929 – Dec-1929, as Fortune Story Magazine: General Fiction Index

Publishers

  6-Oct-1905 – 10-Aug-1917: Frank Tousey, NY
  17-Aug-1917 – 25-Jun-1926: Harry E. Wolff, NY
  2-Jul-1926 – 7-Sep-1928: Westbury Publishing Co., Inc.
  Oct-1928 – Dec-1929: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.

Formats

  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928: 6" x 8"
  Oct-1928 – Dec-1929: standard pulp

Prices

  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928: 5c to 8c
  Oct-1928 – Dec-1929: 15c

Pagecounts

  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928: 32pp
  Oct-1928 – Dec-1929: 128pp

Frequency

  6-Oct-1905 – 7-Sep-1928: weekly
  Oct-1928 – Dec-1929: twice-monthly

Sources

  Dime Novel Bibliography, The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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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 Index (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
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

Total Issues: 9

"The Great International Weekly Story Paper, combining the Newest and Best in Literature, Science and Art".

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Feb-1886 – 3-Apr-1886: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)
Publishers:   E. C. Hancock, 1216 F St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Formats:   9 1/2 x 13"
Prices:   2c
Pagecounts:   16
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Family Fiction {Magazine}

Total Issues: 5?

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

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1946 – Jun/Jul-1947, as Family Fiction Magazine: FictionMags Index
  Aug/Sep-1947 – Nov/Dec-1947?, as Family Fiction: FictionMags Index

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

  bimonthly

The Family Friend

Religious magazine that typically had a serial segment each month and the occasional short story. Advertised as "the biggest and brightest pennyworth for the Home Circle".

Issues & Index Sources

  1849 – 1852
  1852 – 1855
  1855 – 1861
  1862 – 1865
  1866 – 1867
  1870 – 1921: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  S.W. Partridge & Co., 8 & 9 Paternoster Row, London E.C.

Editors

  Robert K. Philp (initially); J.A. Hammerton (in 1904)

Formats

  10" x 7"

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  c. 24pp

Frequency

  monthly

The Family Herald

Total Issues: 4616?

The first English story paper, which featured several story supplements. See separate entry on Complete Story-Teller. Waite noted the first issue appeared in 1844, whilst Reed gives May-1843 as the first issue. Circulation was apparently 240,000 a week in 1855.

Issues & Index Sources:  17-Dec-1842 – Jul-1940
Publishers:   William Stevens
Formats:   folio at outset
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly; monthly from Feb-1929

Family Herald and Weekly Star

Subtitled "Canada's National Farm Magazine", only about half-the publication was devoted to farming. In addition you had stories, Jeffery Farnol makes an appearance here, articles for women and for children, general interest items plus jokes and cartoons.

Issues & Index Sources:  1870 – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Montreal Star Company
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   56pp
Frequency:   weekly

Family Herald Supplement
Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Formats:   digest
Prices:   2d

The Family Journal

Total Issues: 1673

Issues & Index Sources

  8-May-1909 – 31-May-1941: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

#merges with The Home Companion

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Frequency

  Weekly

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