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Pearson's Magazine

Total Issues: 527

Probably second in fame to The Strand Magazine, which it imitated, this was a heavily romantic publication (i.e. stories of both love and adventure). Authors include Max Pemberton, Rafael Sabatini, W.W. Jacobs, C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne ("Captain Kettle" stories), Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, Baroness Orczy, Ethel M. Dell.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1896 – Nov-1939: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson

Editors

  1896 – 1899: C. Arthur Pearson
  1900 – 1911: Percy W. Everett
  1912 – 1919: Philip O'Farrell
  Jan-1920 – Apr-1939: John Reed Wade
  May-1939 – Nov-1939: W.E. Johns

Formats

  standard, on quality stock

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  BritLit3, AgeStory
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Pearson's Magazine (US)

Total Issues: 314

US edition of the British magazine. Initially a straight like-for-like printing it later diverged quite considerably running original US material as well as reprinting from other UK magazines.

The magazine seems to have first appeared in March 1899 but, because it was really just a US printing of the UK edition it continued the same volume and issue numbering, which then was Volume 7, No. 39 - though it only said this on the spine. There's a sudden change in Jan 1903 when the magazine numbering becomes Vol. 9 No. 1. It had now converted to a volume numbering consistent with the first US issue.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1899 – Apr-1925: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1899 – 1902: Pearson's, NY
  1902 – 1925: J.J. Little, NY

Editors

  1902? – Aug-1916: Arthur W. Little
  Sep-1916 – 1922: Frank Harris
  1922 – Apr-1925: Alexander Marky

Formats

  1899 – 1912: standard slick
  1912 – Jun-1917: standard pulp
  Jul-1917 – Apr-1925: large flat

Frequency

  monthly
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Pearson's Story-Teller

Total Issues: 21?

Although details are given in the companion Pearson's Weekly, only 1 copy of this story paper have been found.

Issues & Index Sources:  9-Oct-1895 – 22-Feb-1896?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Pearson
Editors:   C. Arthur Pearson
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   16pp
Sources:   AgeStory

Pearson's Weekly

Total Issues: 2,540+13=2553

Published 2-3 stories an issue often plus a serial. Often featured sf, fantasy, weird, mystery, though shifted emphasis more to women's stories in the 1920s. Authors include George Griffith (several future war novels), H. Rider Haggard ("Heart of the World" 1894), H.G. Wells ("The Invisible Man," 1897); Louis Tracy ("The Final War," 1895/1896), M.P. Shiel, Edgar Wallace, William Le Queux.

Issues & Index Sources

  26-Jul-1890 – 10-Sep-1938: Index to Pearson's Weekly
  17-Sep-1938 – 19-Nov-1938, as New Pearson's and Today: Index to Pearson's Weekly
  26-Nov-1938 – 1-Apr-1939, as New Pearson's Weekly: Index to Pearson's Weekly

#merges with Tit-Bits

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson

Editors

  1890 – 1915: Peter Keary
  1915? – 1932?: Frank J. Lamburn
  1933? – 1935: William J. Makin
  1936 – 1939: J.B. Platnauer

Formats

  tabloid newspaper (12" x 10")

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  AgeStory
 

The Pecos Kid Western

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1950 – Jun-1951: Pulp Magazine Index 1

#merges with 10 Story Western Magazine

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  25c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
 

Peeping Tom [1849]

Total Issues: 90 (approximately)

A 'soft-porn' weekly, full of lurid stories. Dugdale's offices were raided on 26-Sep-1851 and much indecent material was removed.

Issues & Index Sources:  1849 – 1851
Publishers:   H. Smith, London
Editors:   William Dugdale
Formats:   tabloid (11" x 17")
Pagecounts:   4pp
Frequency:   weekly

Peeping Tom [1990]

Total Issues: 34

Small press fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1990 – Sep-1999: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Yew Tree House, 15 Nottingham Road, Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire LE65 1DJ
Editors:   David Bell
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Peep Show [1874]

Issues & Index Sources:  1874 – 1879
Frequency:   monthly

Peep Show [1901]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Jul-1901 – 17-Sep-1901

#becomes Boys' Peep Show

Publishers

  Charles Strong

Frequency

  weekly

Peep Show [2001]

Total Issues: 5

Small press erotic horror fiction magazine. "They can contain lots of sex. Or they can have a more subtle erotic theme to them. The horror theme can be very strong and violent. Or it can be more subtle. That's the basic theme of what I'm after. Please don't submit anything with sex involving children. Also, don't send anything containing incest or any other subjects like that."

Converted to an original anthology with effect from 2004.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-2001 – Jun-2003: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Short, Scary Tales Publications, 15 North Roundhay, Stechford, Birmingham, B33 9PE

Editors

  Paul Fry

Email Address

  editor@peepshowmagazine.co.uk

Formats

  5.2" x 8"

Prices

  £4.50

Pagecounts

  Jun-2001: 63pp
  Dec-2001: 115pp
  Dec-2002: 161pp

Frequency

  twice-yearly

Peewit Series / Peewit Books

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  1939
Publishers:   A. Wheaton & Co., Exeter
Pagecounts:   36pp

Peg's Companion

Total Issues: 572

"Weekly fiction title for girls. Long complete stories from 8,000 to 10,000 words. Serial stories, strong love interest."

Incorporated into Films and Fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  29-Oct-1921 – 22-Oct-1932: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Newnes; C. Arthur Pearson
Formats:   digest (octavo)
Prices:   2d
Frequency:   weekly (every Tuesday)

Peg's Paper

Total Issues: 1108

Young women's story paper whose title has become archetypal for the fiction periodicals of its class.

Issues & Index Sources

  15-May-1919 – 10-Aug-1940: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#merges with Glamour (UK)

#merges with Lucky Star

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson, later Newnes

Editors

  Miss N.W. Kennedy

Formats

  story paper

Pagecounts

  36pp

Frequency

  weekly
 

Penguin New Writing

Total Issues: 40

Published many major writers including Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Osbert Sitwell, Laurie Lee, William Sansom, Dylan Thomas.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1940 – 1950: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Penguin Books, Harmondsworth
Editors:   John Lehmann
Formats:   pocketbook
Frequency:   monthly to #8 (Jul-1941), quarterly to #28 (Jul-1946) then irregular
Sources:   BritLit4

Penguin Parade

Total Issues: 11+3=14

Closer to a magazine than Penguin New Writing, although both are arguably anthologies with a variety of features. Fiction was new and reprint, including H.E. Bates, Stephen Vincent Benet, James G. Cozzens, Sean O'Faolain, Herbert Read, Irwin Shaw, Katherine Anne Porter.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1937 – 1945
  1947 – 1948

Publishers

  Penguin Books

Editors

  1937 – 1945: Cenys Kilham Roberts
  1947 – 1948: Jack Morpurgo

Formats

  pocketbook

Frequency

  intended as quarterly, but irregular

Sources

  BritLit4

Peninsular Magazine

Total Issues: 23 (to Dec-2001)

Fiction-carrying small-press "literary magazine".

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – present
Publishers:   Cherrybite Publications, Linden Cottage, 45 Burton Road, Little Neston, Cheshire, CH64 4AE
Editors:   Shelagh Nugent (in 1997 - 2001)
Email Address:   helicon@globalnet.co.uk
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £3.50
Pagecounts:   88pp
Frequency:   quarterly


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