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On Spec

Total Issues: 76 (to Sep-2009)

Semi-prozine. "The On Spec editors are looking for original, unpublished speculative fiction (SF) and poetry -- fantasy, horror, ghost stories, fairy stories, magic realism, etc. Our mandate is to provide a market for the Canadian viewpoint, but we welcome submissions from writers everywhere, and have published authors from Canada, the U.S., Britain, New Zealand, South America, and more."

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1989 – present:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #67, #68, #69, #70, #71, #72)

Publishers:   The Copper Pig Writers' Society, Box 4727, Edmonton T6E 5G6, Canada
Website:   www.onspec.ca (or www.icomm.ca/onspec/)
Editors:   Marianne O. Nielsen to Fall 1998, then Jena SNyder
Formats:   digest
Prices:   C$5
Pagecounts:   84pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly at outset but quarterly from Fall 1992



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Ontario Review

Total Issues: 57 (to Dec-2002)

Joyce Carol Oates one of the founders; has published work by Margaret Atwood, Pinckney Benedict, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, Doris Lessing, Philip Roth. Although it does not publish a huge amount of fiction, Ontario Review "has one of the highest batting averages for prize-winning fiction in the field," (DeWitt Henry, Wilson Library Bulletin). Circulation 1,100.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1974 – present:

website

Publishers:   Ontario Review Press, Windsor, Ontario; 9 Honey Brook Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.ontarioreviewpress.com
Editors:   Raymond J. Smith (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   152pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Onthebus

Subtitled "A New Literary Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources: 1989? – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Bombshelter Press, Los Angeles
Editors:   Jack Grapes
Prices:   $7.00

On the Spot Detective Tales

see under New All-Action Stories

Oomph Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950

Publishers: Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Open City

Total Issues: 16 (to Dec-2002)

Tries to emulate Partisan Review from the 1940s. Has published Cyril Connolly, Jim Thompson. Publishes perhaps 10 stories per year. Circulation 5,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 1990 – present

Publishers:   Open City, 225 Lafayette Street, Suite 1114, New York, NY 10012 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.opencity.org
Editors:   Thomas Beller, Daniel Pinchbeck (in 2000 - 2002)
Email Address:   ocmagazine@aol.com
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   200pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Open Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: 1948?

Publishers:   Scion Ltd.
Prices:   1/3d
Pagecounts:   30pp

The Open Road

Boys magazine encouraging the outdoor life. Ran regular stories.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1919 – May-1925?

Oct-1925 – Mar-1950, as The Open Road for Boys:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Apr-1950 – Jun-1953, as Open Road: The Young People's Magazine

Jul-1953 – 1954?, as American Boy and Open Road

Publishers

Open Road Publications, Illinois

Editors

in 1940: Clayton H. Ernst

Prices

in 1940: 10c

Pagecounts

in 1940: 34pp

Frequency

monthly

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Open Window

Total Issues: 12

An artistic and imaginative "new age" magazine with the emphasis on poetry, illustration, plays and stories. Authors include Lord Dunsany, E.M. Forster, Frank Swinnerton, Katherine Mansfield ("A Fairy Story" Dec-1910).

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1910 – Sep-1911

Publishers:   Locke Ellis, London
Editors:   Vivian Locke Ellis
Formats:   an early "little" magazine (6" x 4.5")
Pagecounts:   65pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   BritLit3

Operation Fantast

Total Issues: 17

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1949 – May-1955:

Fictionmags Website



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Operator #5

Total Issues: 17+31=48

A character pulp. The lead novels are all SF but the back-up stories almost never are. The novels from June 1936 to March 1938 are sequential and tell the story of the "Purple Invasion." Another sequence, featuring an invasion by the "Yellow Vulture," was begun in May 1939 and had not been resolved when the magazine folded.