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The Ludgate Monthly

Total Issues: 30+24+64=118

The first cheap competitor to The Strand Magazine, but not a very successful one; authors included Walter Besant, James Barr, Rafael Sabatini, Helen Mathers, D. F. Hannigan, Richard Dowling, Hawley Smart, George R. Sims, C. L. Pirkis.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1891 – Oct-1893: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Nov-1893 – Oct-1895, as The Ludgate Illustrated Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Nov-1895 – Feb-1901, as The Ludgate: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

#merges with The Universal Magazine

Publishers

  May-1891 – Oct-1894: The Ludgate Monthly Limited, 4 and 5 Creed Lane, London, E. C.
  Nov-1894 – Oct-1895: Messrs. Horace Marshall & Son, 125 Fleet Street and Temple House, Temple Avenue, London
  Nov-1895 – Oct-1897: The "Black and White" Publishing Co.
  Nov-1897 – Feb-1901: F. V. White & Co., 14 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C.

Editors

  May-1891 – Apr-1894?: Phil May
  Nov-1895 – 1897: James Nicol Dunn
  1897 – 1898: Henry D. Lowry
  1899 – Feb-1901: Vharles Hyatt-Woolf
  ?: Alexis Maria de Beck

Formats

  standard

Prices

  May-1891 – Oct-1892: 3d
  Nov-1892 – Feb-1901: 6d

Pagecounts

  Nov-1891 – Oct-1892: 64pp
  Nov-1892 – Oct-1895: 112pp
  Nov-1895 – Apr-1898: 106/112pp
  May-1898 – Feb-1901: 96pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

The Ludgate Weekly Magazine
Issues & Index Sources:  5-Mar-1892 – ?
Editors:   Charles Ogilvie
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Luke Short's Western

Total Issues: 2?

Sturgeon's "Cactus Dance" is reprinted from Oct/Dec-1954 issue (which WorldCat says is #2).

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr/Jun-1954 – Oct/Dec-1954: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Dell
Formats:   digest
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   UltGuide, DinWest

Lullaby Hearse

Total Issues: 6 (to Dec-2005)

Lullaby Hearse is a resting place for art, poetry, and fiction that emphasize concrete imagery. Modern horror, surrealistic prose, and the poetry of violence all crawl across these pages, but never to the detriment of visual clarity.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2003 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Bangor, ME
Website:   www.lullabyhearse.com
Editors:   Sarah Ruth Jacobs
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   48pp

Lunatic Chameleon

Total Issues: 5 (to Dec-2005)

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-2002 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Tolland, CT
Editors:   Nancy Purnell
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $3.50
Pagecounts:   76pp

Luscious Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Lush Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Pagecounts:   36pp

A. Lynes & Son's Illustrated Magazine

Total Issues: 14?

Kensington fashion house which published a bi-yearly magazine, in the Summer and Winter.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1870 – Winter 1877: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Winter 1871, Summer 1872, Winter 1872, #13)
Publishers:   A. Lynes

Lynx Eye
Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   1880 Hill Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90041 (in 2002)
Editors:   Pam McCully & Kathryn Morrison (in 2002)
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Lyons Mail

In-house magazine of the J. Lyons company which ran several short stories by Edgar Wallace (and others) as well as articles by Arthur Machen.

A separate "Forces edition" was published during World War II.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Lyons Club, Cadby Hall, Kensington, London (in 1921)
Prices:   2d (in 1921)
Related Sites:   www.kzwp.com/lyons/inhouse.htm
 

The Lyre

Total Issues: 2

Small press sf/fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1991 – #2, 1993: Miller/Contento

Lyric Love Stories

Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1936
Publishers:   Gordon Associates
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Mab S^e^r

 see under Beyond the Boundaries

Mabs Weekly

Total Issues: 177+54+124=355

Young women's story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  3-Oct-1931 – 16-Feb-1935: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  23-Feb-1935 – 29-Feb-1936, as Mabs Home Weekly
  7-Mar-1936 – 16-Jul-1938, as Home Weekly

Publishers

  Fashions for All Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, EC1

Formats

  7.2" x 10.5"

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Macabre [1957]

Total Issues: 23

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1957 – #23, 1976: Miller/Contento
Sources:   CookMDE

Macabre [1972]

Total Issues: 20

Initially a fanzine, it changed format dramatically with the fifth issue.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1972 – Summer 1976: Miller/Contento
  Spring/Summer 1977 – Fall/Winter 1981, as The Argonaut: Miller/Contento
  Fall 1983 – Summer 1995, as Argonaut: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Spring/Summer 1977 – Fall 1983: Michael E. Ambrose
  Summer 1984 – 1989: Argo Press, Austin, TX

Editors

  Michael E. Ambrose

Prices

  Spring/Summer 1977: 75c
  Winter/Spring 1979 – Fall/Winter 1980: $1.50
  Fall/Winter 1981: $2.00
  Fall 1983 – 1989: $3.00
  Summer 1991: $5.00
  Summer 1992 – Summer 1995: $4.95

Macabre [2002]
Issues & Index Sources:  2002 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Allegra Press, Singapore
Editors:   Christina Sng
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   20

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