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Murder Stories

Total Issues: 3

Short-lived pulp magazine published by Harold Hersey about little is known. The third issue might not have been published.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul/Aug-1931 – Nov/Dec-1931:	Cook/Miller	(Missing: Nov/Dec-1931)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Nov/Dec-1931)

Publishers:   Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Murky Depths

Total Issues: 8 (as at Feb-2009)

A quarterly comic-book-sized anthology that features top quality speculative fiction with sprinklings of horror and fantasy that push the boundaries of science fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 2007 – present

Publishers:   Terry Martin
Editors:   Anne Stringer
Formats:   6.5" x 10"
Prices:   £6.99



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Murray's Magazine

Total Issues: 60

A fairly stuffy magazine with marginal acceptance of fiction (Murray's were not great fiction publishers at this time). Nevertheless published some interesting items by Emily Lawless, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee ("Amour Dure," Jan-1887), Lucas Malet, Margaret L. Woods.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1887 – Dec-1891:

Indexes to Fiction #4: Time, Murray's Magazine and The Quarto

Publishers

John Murray

Editors

Jan-1887 – Apr-1890: Edward Arnold
May-1890 – Dec-1891: W.L. Courtney

Formats

standard, monthly, 1/-

Frequency

monthly

Musketeer

Listed in "The Howell Magazines" by John Marim, a spoof article first published in Peon #26, Feb-1953. Supposedly published "The Atomic Humans" by David H. Keller, and supposedly merged with Golden Book Magazine in Feb-1931 to form Musketeer-Golden Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1890 – 1931

(spoof)

Publishers:   John F. Howell Publishing Company
Editors:   Bob J. Risley
Formats:   standard pulp
Pagecounts:   224pp
Frequency:   weekly

My Children's Magazine

see under Children's Encyclopedia

My Confession

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948

Publishers:   Muir-Watson Publications, 112 Bath Street, Glasgow C2
Prices:   1/3d
Pagecounts:   36pp

My Home

"Complete stories, 3000 - 5000 words; serials in five to six instalments of 10,000 words each".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers: Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Frequency: monthly

My Lady's Novelette

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: 16-Aug-1890 – 20-Sep-1890

Formats: small tabloid (quarto)
Frequency: weekly

My Life in a Love Cult

Total Issues: 1

Appears to be a non-fiction expose of the Tantrik Order in America run by Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard.

Issues & Index Sources: 1928:

Cook/Miller

Publishers:   Better Publications
Formats:   standard pulp-format novel
Sources:   UltGuide

My Love Story

see under Western Love Stories

My Magazine

see under Children's Encyclopedia

My Paper

Total Issues: 106

Incorporated into: Family Favourite

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Feb-1913 – 15-Feb-1915

Publishers: Amalgamated Press

My Queen Library/Novels

Total Issues: 797

Renamed "My Queen Novels" from #718 (1909).

Issues & Index Sources: 1896 – 1914:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

My Queen Magazine

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 21-Jul-1914 – 17-Nov-1914

Publishers: Aldine?

Myrddin

Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1975 – #4, 1978:

Miller/Contento

Myrrh

Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1981:

Miller/Contento

My Self Magazine

see under Mind Magic

The Mysterious Traveler Magazine

Total Issues: 5

A mixed-genre magazine, inspired by the weekly radio show.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1951 – #5, 1952:	Miller/Contento
	Monthly Murders

Publishers:   Grace Publishing, N.Y.
Editors:   Robert Arthur
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE

The Mysterious Wu Fang

Total Issues: 7

A character pulp. The lead novels are usually SF in nature, but the back up stories almost never are.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1935 – Mar-1936:	Miller/Contento
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Popular Publications, N.Y.
Editors:   Edith Seims
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Mystery [1979]

Total Issues: 11

Mystery started as a slick, quarto-sized, magazine in 1981, but after 9 issues converted to a digest, closing after a further two issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov/Dec-1979 – Jul-1982:	Mystery Short Fiction	(Missing: v1 #1)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: v1 #1)

Publishers:   Mystery Magazine Inc., Glendale
Editors:   Stephen L. Smoke to #4, then Thomas Godfrey
Formats:   slick (last two issues digest)
Prices:   $2.00 (last two issues $1.95)
Pagecounts:   64pp (last two issues 96pp)
Frequency:   bi-monthly then quarterly
Sources:   CookMDE



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