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The Granta [1889]

A Cambridge students' little magazine, and long a training ground for humorists who went on to greater things (among them F. Anstey, E. F. Benson, Barry Pain, A. A. Milne), it faded away in the 1960s; revived in very different format as Granta, 1979.

Issues & Index Sources:  1889 – 196?
Publishers:   Cambridge University
Frequency:   irregular frequency
Sources:   BritLit3

Granta [1979]

Total Issues: 79 (to Dec-2002)

Revived in 1979 by the energetic American owner-editor Buford (subsequently fiction editor of The New Yorker). In its modern guise it has published stories by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, etc, as well as poetry and much cultural journalism; circulation about 15,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  1979 – present: Short Story Index

Publishers

  Bill Buford, Cambridge; moved to London at some point prior to 1990

Website

  www.granta.com/

Editors

  1979 – 1995: Bill Buford
  1996 – 2007: Ian Jack
  2007 – present: Jason Cowley

Formats

  large digest; now pocketbook

Prices

  £5.99 (in 1990)

Pagecounts

  256pp (in 1990)

Frequency

  quarterly

The Grape-Vine Telegram

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1935 (FicMags: sample issue only)
Editors:   L. L. Richardson
Formats:   6" X 4.5"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   16pp

The Graphic

Total Issues: 3266

Noted for its illustrations, it also published much serial fiction including Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Victor Hugo, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy ("The Mayor of Casterbridge" 1886 and "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" 1891), George Meredith, J.M. Barrie, H.G. Wells and John Buchan. Fiction dwindled in later years though Graham Greene was a young contributor.

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Dec-1869 – 21-Apr-1932: Indexes to Fiction: The Illustrated London News and the Graphic (fiction to 1901 only)
  18-Apr-1932 – 14-Jul-1932, as National Graphic

#merges with The Sphere

Publishers

  1869 – 1893: E.J. Mansfield
  1894 – 1903: G.R. Parker
  1903 – 1932: The Graphic

Editors

  1869 – 1870: H. Sutherland Edwards
  1870 – 1891: Arthur Locker
  1891 – 1906: Thomas Heath Joyce
  1906 – 1909: W. Comyns Beaumont
  1909 – 1924: J.M. Bulloch
  1924 – 1926: Frank Le Couteur
  1926 – 1932: Alan J. Bott

Formats

  initially tabloid

Prices

  1869 – 1917: 6d
  1917 – 1920: 9d
  1920 – 1932: 1/-

Pagecounts

  24pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  AgeStory

Graphic Classics

A series of books presenting great fiction in comics and illustration for contemporary readers ages 12 to adult.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1999 – present: Miller/Contento
Website:   www.graphicclassics.com
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   144pp
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Grave Tales

Total Issues: 5 (to Dec-2008)

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1999 – present: Miller/Contento
Editors:   Richard Chizmar
Formats:   quarto

The Gray Goose

Total Issues: 132?

A magazine of original short stories, in emulation of The Black Cat.

Issues & Index Sources

  1896 – Jun-1909: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1896 – 1908: James Knapp Reeve, Cincinnati
  1908 – 1909: The Outing Press, New York

Formats

  standard format, quality paper

Prices

  initially 5c

Frequency

  monthly

Gray's Monthly Magazine of Popular Music & Short Stories

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1898
Publishers:   W.B. Gray & Co., New York
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Great American Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1929 – Jun-1929: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   American Novel Magazine Publishing Corporation, Inc. (MacFadden), Wshington and South Aves., Dunellen, NJ
Formats:   bedsheet pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly

Great Detective

Total Issues: 12?

Great Detective was originally launched in 1933 with the self-imposed task of publishing "the best detective-mystery fiction available", much of it with a distinctly English flavour. After nine issues or so there was a hiatus following which the magazine resurfaced briefly featuring entirely original fiction, but survived for only three issues in this guise.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1933 – Oct-1934: Pulp Magazine Index 3 (Missing: Dec-1933 to Jul-1934)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   L.M. Publishing, N.Y.
Editors:   Will Levinrew
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly to Nov-1933; may have then gone bi-monthly for four issues, or publication suspended until Apr-1934, when resumed monthly.
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Great Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Macfadden Publishing, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, NJ

Greater Gangster Stories

see under Gangster Stories

Greater Western Action Novels

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1938 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Double-Action
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Greater Western Magazine

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1935 – ?: Fictionmags Website (Missing: any after Aug-1935)
Publishers:   Lincoln Hoffman, N.Y.
Editors:   Jack Phillips?
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Greatest Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Superior Publishers Limited, Toronto

Greatest Uncommon Denominator

A print/pdf magazine with two hundred pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, art, and articles.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2007 – present
Website:   www.gudmagazine.com
Prices:   $10.00
Frequency:   twice-yearly

Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine

Total Issues: 5

"A repository of stories for the mystery lover and a distinguished place for authors to publish their best work. What makes us different from most other mystery/suspense publications is the word wholesome."

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 2006 – Fall 2007: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   P.O. Box 8008, St. Joseph, MO 64508
Editors:   Vicki Lipira
Prices:   $5.00
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