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Lion Library

Total Issues: 28

Published detective and adventure stories; possibly started monthly , but was advertised (in Lot-o-Fun for November 27, 1909) with four numbers that month. The Maxwell Kean adventures are reprints of American dime novels featuring Nick Carter.

Issues & Index Sources

  27-Apr-1909 – Nov-1909: Story Paper Index (incomplete)

#incorporated into Nugget Library (UK)

Publishers

  James Henderson

Frequency

  Varied

Lippincott's Magazine

High-quality fiction, one of the first to adopt the "complete novel" approach. Authors include Gertrude Atherton, Stephen Crane, Rebecca Harding Davis, Bret Harte, Julian Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, Henry James, Frank R. Stockton. Also first publication of Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Kipling's "The Light That Failed" and Doyle's "The Sign of the Four."

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1868 – Dec-1899: Index to Periodical Literature (FicMags sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
  Jan-1900 – Aug-1915: The Standard Index of Short Stories
Fictionmags Website
  Sep-1915 – Apr-1916, as McBride's Magazine: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Jan-1916, Feb-1916, Mar-1916, Apr-1916)

#merges with Scribner's Magazine

Publishers

  1868 – 1914: Lippincott, Philadelphia
  1914 – 1916: McBride, Nast, New York

Editors

  1868 – 1884: John Foster Kirk
  1885: J. Bird
  1885 – 1889: William S. Walsh
  1889 – 1896: Henry Studdart
  1898: Frederic M. Bird
  1898 – 1905: Harrison S. Morris
  1905 – 1914: J. Berg Esenwein
  1914: Louise Bull
  1914 – 1916: Edward Frank Allen

Formats

  standard

Frequency

  monthly
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The Listener

Frequently ran a story or two per issue, either a transcript of a story broadcast on radio or a new one by a featured author related to a radio broadcast.

Issues & Index Sources

  16-Jan-1929 – 198?

Publishers

  BBC, London

Editors

  1934: R.S. Lambert
  1948: A.E.W. Thomas

Formats

  tabloid

Literal Chaos

Features poems, some very short stories, and photography.

Issues & Index Sources:  2008 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Landlocked Media LLC, PO Box 270611, St. Louis, MO 63127
Website:   www.literalchaos.com
Editors:   Amanda Wells
Formats:   5.5" by 8.5"
Prices:   $7
Pagecounts:   26pp

Literal Latté

Distributed free in art centres and bookstores in NY. Circulation estimated at 25,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1994 – present
Publishers:   Literal Latte, Suite 240, 61 East 8th Street, New York, NY 10003 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.literal-latte.com
Editors:   Jenine Gordon Bockman & Jeff Bockman (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   litlatte@aol.com
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Literary Album

Total Issues: 225

Issues & Index Sources:  23-Dec-1865 – 9-Apr-1870: Bibliographic Listing: Literary Album
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   15½" x 11"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Literary Cavalcade

"Features contemporary and modern classic literature: dramatic scripts, stories, essays, poetry and writing lessons for high-school students, grades 9-12."

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1948 – May-2005
Publishers:   Scholastic
Frequency:   monthly (during term time)
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The Literary Digest

Issues & Index Sources

  1890 – 1938

#merges with Time

Publishers

  Funk & Wagnalls

Frequency

  weekly
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The Literary Gazette

Mostly non-fiction. Calls itself 'Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.' as per Drabble;Oxf; BL states 1823-1874

Issues & Index Sources:  1817 – 1862
Publishers:   Henry Colburn
Editors:   William Jerdan, S. Phillips, L. Reeve, J.M. Jephson
Sources:   BritLit2

The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror

Fanzine. See also Toadstool Wine and Fantasy and Terror, the latter a quasi-revival.

Issues & Index Sources:  1973 – 1975: Miller/Contento
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The Literary Post

Total Issues: 20

Ran one or two stories per issue though mostly a literary miscellany.

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Mar-1910 – Sep-1910
Publishers:   Eveleigh Nash, London
Editors:   Eveleigh Nash (assisted by Maude ffoulkes)
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   weekly (last issue monthly)

The Literary Review (US)

Brings together new works and literary translations from around the world. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Autumn 1957 – present: Short Story Index (Missing: all before 1974 at least)
Publishers:   Farleigh Dickinson University, 285 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.theliteraryreview.org
Editors:   Walter Cummins (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   tlr@fdu.edu
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Literary Review (UK)

A literary review and focus for new poetry and prose, book reviews, cultural essays; circulation about 15,000. Occasional fiction, but not so much now as originally.

Issues & Index Sources:  1979 – present
Publishers:   Namara, London
Editors:   Ann Smith, Auberon Waugh
Formats:   small slick
Frequency:   monthly

Literature

Total Issues: 221

Forerunner of the Times Literary Supplement. According to Sullivan, Brit. Lit. Mags. 1837 - 1913, "though the publication of poems and short stories makes up a small part of Literature, the contributors include Kipling and Meredith as well as Emily Lawless, Fiona MacLeod, Evelyn Nisbet, Ernest Rhys, Alice Herbert and Grace Ellery Channing."

Issues & Index Sources

  23-Oct-1897 – 11-Jan-1902

#merges with The Academy

Publishers

  London Times

Editors

  H.D. Traill to 1900

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  BritLit3

Littell's Living Age

An all-reprint magazine selecting the best fiction, essays and verse from magazines published abroad.

Issues & Index Sources

  11-May-1844 – 1897: Index to Periodical Literature
  1897 – 1941, as Living Age: Index to Periodical Literature (to 1906 only)

Publishers

  1844 – 1896: Littell
  1896 – 1919: Frank Foxcroft
  1919 – 1928: Atlantic Monthly Press
  1928 – 1941: World Topics

Editors

  1844 – 1870: Eliakim Littell
  1870 – 1896: Robert Littell
  1896 – 1919: Frank Foxcroft
  1919: Ellery Sedgwick
  1920 – 1928: Victor S. Clarke
  1928 – 1941?: John Bakeless

Formats

  octavo; slightly smaller from 1853

Frequency

  weekly to 1927, then monthly

Little Bear Library

Total Issues: 46

Issues & Index Sources:  1928
Publishers:   Sampson Low


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