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Pan

Total Issues: 3+46+35=84

The first series was a slight ephemeral magazine with a bohemian outlook that never got off the ground. It was relaunched as Pan: A Journal for Saints and Cynics which published some fiction, but was generally too aimless. From Jul-1921 it became an all-fiction pulp magazine companion to 20-Story Magazine and featured a lot of mystery and weird fiction as well as adventure stories. Authors include E.C. Vivian, Edgar Wallace, Douglas Newton, Elliott O'Donnell, Guy Dent, Michael Arlen and UK publication of stories by H. Bedford-Jones, George Allan England, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Baird. First English publication of Maurice Level's "Night and Silence" (Jan-1922) later in Weird Tales.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1919 – Jun-1919: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  8-Nov-1919 – Jun-1921, as Pan: A Journal for Saints and Cynics: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Jul-1921 – May-1924, as Pan^--the Fiction Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags is incomplete)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Feb-1919 – Jun-1921: Pan, Long Acre, London
  Jul-1921 – May-1924: Odhams Press

Editors

  Feb-1919 – 1920: W. Comyns Beaumont
  1920 – 1921: A.D. Peters
  1921 – 1924: W.A. Williamson

Formats

  Feb-1919 – Jun-1921: tabloid
  Jul-1921 – May-1924: standard pulp

Frequency

  Feb-1919 – Jun-1919: monthly (but no Apr-1919 or May-1919)
  8-Nov-1919 – 3-Jul-1920: weekly
  Aug-1920 – May-1924: monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

Pandora

Total Issues: 29

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1978 – #29, 1993: Miller/Contento
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Pandora Magazine

Billed as a "multi-media, cross-genre art and culture magazine" this has a very glossy website with cover scans of 4 issues, but never actually appeared.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 2007
Publishers:   Mabelyn Arteaga & Robert Mendoza
Website:   www.pandoramagazine.com
Editors:   Ed Mathews & Victoria Slocum

Pangolin Papers

All-fiction journal.

Publishers:   P.O. Box 241, Nordland, WA 98358 (in 1998)
Editors:   Pat Britt (in 1998)
Frequency:   thrice yearly

Panurge

Contains new fiction by new writers.

Issues & Index Sources

  1984 – 1995: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  1984 – 1987: John Murray
  1987 – 1993: David Almond, Newcastle
  1993 – 1995: John Murray

Editors

  1984 – 1987: John Murray
  1987 – 1993: David Almond
  1993 – 1995: John Murray

Formats

  review

Prices

  £2.95

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  twice-yearly

The Papyrus

Total Issues: 89?

One of the earliest little magazines, called 'A Magazine of Individuality'.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1903 – May-1912: Index to (American) Little Magazines

#superseded by The Phoenix

Publishers

  Michael Monahan

Editors

  Michael Monahan

Formats

  digest

Frequency

  monthly but no issues Apr-1904, May-1904, Sep-1906 - Jun-1907 or May-1910 - Oct-1910.

Parabola

Produced by the Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition; focus on essays, stories and artwork which reworks myth and fable. Mostly non-fiction. Circulation 41,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1976 – present
Publishers:   Tamarack Press, New York
Website:   www.parabola.org
Editors:   David Appelbaum
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
 

Parade [1915]

"Short stories (2000 - 2500 words)".

Issues & Index Sources:  1915 – ?
Publishers:   30 Bouverie St., London EC4
Editors:   Alfred Brockman (in 1962)
Frequency:   weekly

Parade [1937]

Total Issues: 48?

Called itself 'the British digest of good reading'.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1937 – Sep-1941
Frequency:   monthly

Parade [1960s]

Parade was a continuation of Blighty, a patriotic war-time pin-up magazine. By the 1960s, Parade was a general weekly newsstand magazine running slightly risque stories of the kind you could find in a lot of men's adventure magazines, but also continuing the pin-ups on the covers and (topless) nudity from Blighty. In this period, each issue also carried an installment of an adaptation of a current movie. These were each done in four episodes and anonymously adapted a lot of movies not otherwise novelised, amongst them 'The Italian Job'.

It was relaunched in 1983 as a typical British porn mag.

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Oct-1939 – 29-Nov-1958, as Blighty
  6-Dec-1958 – 7-Nov-1959, as Blighty Parade
  14-Nov-1959 – 26-Nov-1960, as Parade and Blighty
  3-Dec-1960 – Jun-1977?, as Parade: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  1983 – 1998?, as Parade [1960s]

Publishers

  in 1960s: City Magazines, 167-170 Fleet Street, London E.C.4.
  early 1970s: City Magazines, Aldwych House, 81 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HL
  in 1978: General Book Distribution, Warner House, Wardour Street, W1V 4QA

Editors

  Alfred Brockman (in 1966)

Prices

  in 1960s: 1/-
  in 1970s: 7½d

Pagecounts

  32pp (in 1960s)

Frequency

  21-Oct-1939 – 20-Apr-1974: weekly
  May-1974 – Jun-1977: monthly
  1983 – 1986: monthly
  1986 – 1998: fortnightly
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Parade and Blighty

see under Parade

Parade Carnival

Parade Carnival was a spin-off title from Parade which ran irregularly or possibly quarterly; earliest issue traced is Winter 1964

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s
Publishers:   City Magazines, 167-170 Fleet Street, London E.C.4. (in 1960s)
Frequency:   quarterly?

Paradox

Total Issues: 10 (to Dec-2006)

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2003 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Christopher M. Cevasco
Website:   www.paradoxmag.com
Editors:   Christopher M. Cevasco
Prices:   $5
Frequency:   three times a year
 

Paradox

see also under Just SF

Paragon

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1980: Miller/Contento

Paragraph

Total Issues: 22 (to Dec-2002)

Small press magazine (400 copies per issue) which concentrates on short-short stories of around 200 words (hence the title).

Issues & Index Sources:  1985 – present
Publishers:   Oat City Press, East Providence, RI
Website:   www.oatcity.com/paragraph.htm
Frequency:   occasional

Paragraph: A Quarterly of Gay Fiction

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1978 – 1979
Publishers:   Antares Foundation, Box 14051, San Francisco, CA 94114
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OOV

Parameter

"Poetry, Prose, Art - for the Wise and Discerning Reader".

Issues & Index Sources:  Autumn/Winter 2005 – present
Publishers:   Parameter Magazine, PO Box 220, Wythenshawe, Manchester, M23 0WE
Editors:   Tom Jenks
Prices:   £3.95

Parchment Symbols

Dead acc. SGI Dec-2002

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1999 – present: Miller/Contento (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Anxiety Publications, PMB 314, 101 Middlesex Tpke Suite 6, Burlington, MA 01803
Editors:   Kate Hill & Elizabeth Portland
Email Address:   katehill@sprintmail.com
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $2.50
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   Annual


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