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Phenomena

Subtitled "The Literary Magazine for Supernatural & Horror Enthusiasts". "A strange mixture of fantasy fiction, New Age twaddle, and Hollywood celebrity worship".

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1983:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Foster Publications, P.O. Box 6783, San Jose, CA 95150-6783.
Formats:   saddle-stapled wide digest (8.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide)
Prices:   $1.75
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Philadelphia Independent

A broadsheet probably inspired in part by the NEW YORK OBSERVER, and containing some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-2002? – 2004:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Mattathias Schwartz
Editors:   Mattathias Schwartz
Formats:   broadsheet
Prices:   50c

Philadelphia Stories

Total Issues: 3 (to Jun-2005)

Subtitled "Fiction/Art/Poetry of the Delaware Valley".

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 2004 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Carla Spataro
Website:   www.philadelphiastories.org
Editors:   Carla Spataro & Christine Weiser
Formats:   quarto semigloss slick
Prices:   $10 a year
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   Quarterly

Phoebe: A Journal of the Literary Arts

Phoebe seeks to publish quality writing. Do not send formulaic writing, romance fiction, or greeting card poetry. We welcome experimental writing.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – present

Publishers:   MSN 2D6, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.gmu.edu/pubs/phoebe/
Email Address:   phoebe@gmu.edu
Formats:   review
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Phoenix [1914]

Total Issues: 18

A successor to The Papyrus.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1914 – Nov-1915

Publishers:   Michael Monahan
Editors:   Michael Monahan
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   monthly

Phoenix [1941]

Subtitled "A magazine for young writers".

Issues & Index Sources: Oct/Nov-1941 – ?

Publishers: Cynthia Crawshaw, "Wayside", Ayton, Berwickshire
Editors: Cynthia Crawshaw (and others)

Phoenix [1946]

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1946 – Autumn 1946

Publishers:   The Furze Press, 121 High Street, Lewes, Sussex
Editors:   Norman Swallow
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   36pp

Phoenix Novels

Cited by Mike Cook in MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES, this is actually a series of mystery novels.

Photoplay

One of the best-known of the movie "fan magazines," it carried fiction in its earlier years, principally novelizations of film scripts; by Oct-1957 it was a downmarket big slick with chatty personality pieces on film stars and copious advertising aimed at women (but no fiction).

Issues & Index Sources: 1911 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Macfadden
Frequency: monthly

Photo-Play Journal

Another movie "fan magazine" which carried fiction in its earlier years, principally novelizations of film scripts.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1916 – Feb-1921

Publishers: Philadelphia, PA
Editors: Ed Roberts

Photo-Play World

Another movie "fan magazine" which carried fiction in its earlier years, principally novelizations of film scripts.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1917 – May-1920:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: The Downs Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA
Prices: 35c

Phylon

Called the Atlanta Review of Race and Culture.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1940 – present

Publishers: Atlanta University, GA
Editors: W.E.B. DuBois

Physical Culture (UK)

see under Sandow's Magazine

Physical Culture (US)

The foundation stone of MacFadden's sleazy publishing empire. Although a popular health-and-fitness magazine (much condemned by serious medical journals), it published a surprising amount of fiction -- to such an extent that "in the early thirties, it aped the general monthlies and ran fiction by popular authors like Warwick Deeping and Harold Bell Wright" (Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century).