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The Home Journal [1872]

A family paper of 'news and novels, fancy and criticism'. Waite states it lasted for less than two years; the BL does not list the title for this period.

Issues & Index Sources:  1872 – 1874?
Frequency:   weekly?

Home Library of Powerful and Dramatic Tales

Total Issues: 64

Issues & Index Sources:  1886 – 1896
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.

The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

A family paper which ran occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1877 – Dec-1879
  Jan-1880 – Oct-1925, as The Home Friend
  Nov-1925 – Dec-1931, as The Scottish Girls' Friendly Society Magazine
  Jan-1932 – ?, as The Scottish Girl

Frequency

  monthly

The Home Magazine [1856]

Total Issues: 490 (approximately)

subtitled 'A Journal of Entertainment and Instruction'

Issues & Index Sources:  1856 – 1866

Home Magazine [1888]

Merged with Madame in 1906 and with Uncle Remus's Magazine in May-1908, but retained own numbering throughout.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1888 – Apr-1908: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  1888 – 1904: Brodix Publishing Co., Washington DC
  1904 – 1906: P.V. Collins, Minneapolis
  1906 – 1908: Bobbs-Merrill

Editors

  ?: Mrs John A. Logan
  1896 – 1899: Arthur T. Vance
  1900 – 1904: Francis P. Elliott

Formats

  large tabloid

Prices

  5c

The Home Magazine [1898]

Total Issues: 146

A churchified offering that ran some short fiction but nothing of interest.

Issues & Index Sources

  1898 – 29-Dec-1900

#merges with The Sunday Strand

Publishers

  Newnes

Frequency

  weekly

The Home Magazine [1918]

see under The Woman at Home

The Home Magazine of Fiction

see under The Lady's Magazine

Home Mirror

Total Issues: 207+133+44=384

See note under Home Chat.

Issues & Index Sources

  11-Oct-1919 – 29-Sep-1923
  6-Oct-1923 – 17-Apr-1926
  24-Apr-1926 – 25-Feb-1927

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Maud Brown

Formats

  large digest booklet, mostly of complete short novels

Frequency

  weekly

Home Notes

Ran one serial plus a story or two; most contributors anonymous but known to include Mrs Hungerford; Winifred Graham, Florence Warden, Ada Cambridge.

Issues & Index Sources

  18-Jan-1894 – 12-Jun-1958: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#merges with Woman's Own

Publishers

  1894 – ?: C.A. Pearson

Editors

  Isobel Thorne

Formats

  large review size (6"x9.5")

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  32pp

Frequency

  weekly

Homes and Gardens

"Fiction of the highest quality... 2000 - 5000 words" (W&A Ybk 1963), but fiction not mentioned by 1997. Absorbed The Home Magazine, 1931, and The Garden.

Issues & Index Sources

  1919 – present

Publishers

  Newnes, 2-10 Tavistock St., London WC2, later IPC Magazines

Website

  www.ipcmedia.com/magazines/homesgardens/

Editors

  in 1962: Lady Georgina Coleridge
  in 1997: Julia Watson
  in 2004: Deborah Barker

Frequency

  monthly

Home Stories

see under Answers Library

Home Stories [1893]

Total Issues: 45+146+390=681

A confusing paper. The British Library (Colindale) index says that it was a free supplement with Good Company but under Good Company it says it was a free supplement with Home Stories during 1896/1897!

Issues & Index Sources

  1893 – 1894, as Lazy Land
  24-Mar-1894 – 26-Dec-1896, as Good Company
  2-Jan-1897 – 10-Oct-1900, as Home Stories

Frequency

  weekly

Home Stories [1923]

Total Issues: 167

Technically a continuation of Answers Library (706 issues from Mar-1910 - Dec-1923).

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1923 – May-1925
  Jun-1925 – Aug-1925, as Women's Home Stories
  Sep-1925 – Feb-1927, as Women's Stories

Publishers

  Newnes

Frequency

  weekly

Home Sweet Home

Issues & Index Sources:  1893 – 1901
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press

Home Weekly

see under Red Rose Novels

Home Words for Heart and Hearth

Possibly non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1897 – 1902
Publishers:   Home Words Publishing Office
Editors:   Rev. Charles Bullock

Homicide Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1951 – ?

Publishers

  1951 – ?: World at War Publishing Co., 19 W. 44th St., New York, NY., 55 Morton St., New York, NY
  1954 – ?: Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

Frequency

  bimonthly

Homicide Detective Story Magazine

Total Issues: 4

A short-lived magazine that represented the transitional period between the pulp-style detective fiction of the 1940s and early 1950s, and the more polished and sophisticated crime fiction of the 1960s.

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1956: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1956 – Mar-1957, as Killers Mystery Story Magazine: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Arnold Magazines

Editors

  Alfred Grenet

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  bi-monthly

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
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Homicide Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 1?

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime Detective, Police Detective, Racket-Buster Detective and Crime Investigator.

Issues & Index Sources:  1949: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
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