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Magazine Issues

Prairie Pranks

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1949:

Publishers:   Utopian Publications Ltd., London
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Prairie Schooner

Regularly publishes two or three stories per issue. Authors include Tennessee Williams, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Russo, Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Ron Hansen, Marilyn Hacker, Steve Stern. Circulation 3,200.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1927 – present:	Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970	(Missing: 1971-1974 at least)
	Short Story Index	(Missing: 1971-1974 at least)

Publishers

201 Andrews Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0334 (in 1998 - 2002)

Website

www.unl.edu/schooner/psmain.htm

Editors

  1926 – 1956: Lowry C. Wimberly
  1956 – 1963: Karl Shapiro
  1963 – 1980: Bernice Slote
  1980 – 1987: Hugh Luke
  1987 – present: Hilda Raz

Formats

review

Pagecounts

200pp

Frequency

quarterly

Sources

OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Prairie Star

Issues & Index Sources: 1999 – present

Publishers:   P.O. Box 923, Fort Collins, CO 80522-0923 (in 2000)
Editors:   Mark Gluckstern (in 2000)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2001 or 2002)

Prelude to Fantasy

Total Issues: 5

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1978 – #5, 1988:

Miller/Contento

The Premier Magazine

Total Issues: 159+43+54=256

Published a lot of atmospheric adventure, mystery and weird fiction. Authors include Achmed Abdullah, Bertram Atkey, L.J. Beeston, Marjorie Bowen, J.B. Harris-Burland, Mrs Champion de Crespigny, Beatrice Grimshaw, William Hope Hodgson, F. Morton Howard, William Le Queux, C. Randolph Lichfield, Victor MacClure, Douglas Newton, Sax Rohmer, Rafael Sabatini, Andrew Soutar, Albert Payson Terhune, Guy Thorne, Edgar Wallace, Fred M. White.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1914 – 6-Feb-1923:	Index to The Premier Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Mar-1923 – Sep-1926:	Index to The Premier Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Oct-1926 – Mar-1931:	Index to The Premier Magazine
	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, London

Editors

David Whitelaw

Formats

  May-1914 – 6-Feb-1923: standard pulp
  Mar-1923 – Sep-1926: standard slick, on coated stock
  Oct-1926 – Mar-1931: standard pulp

Prices

  May-1914 – 6-Feb-1923: 6d (initially 4d)
  Mar-1923 – Sep-1926: 1/-
  Oct-1926 – Mar-1931: 6d

Pagecounts

  May-1914 – 6-Feb-1923: 160pp (first six issues 176pp) reducing to 112pp by 1919
  Mar-1923 – Sep-1926: 136pp
  Oct-1926 – Mar-1931: 96pp

Frequency

  May-1914 – May-1919: monthly
  Jun-1919 – 6-Feb-1923: fortnightly
  Mar-1923 – Mar-1931: monthly

Sources

AgeStory



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Premonitions

Total Issues: 5 (to Dec-2004)

Small press sf/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1992 – present:

Miller/Contento

PreScience Fiction

This magazine was published for trademark purposes only, it was never offered for sale.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1952:

Miller/Contento

(not published)

Publishers: Gernsback Publications, NY

Present Tense

Issues & Index Sources: 1973 – 1990

Publishers: American Jewish Committee
Editors: Murray Polner

Press

Publication suspended in 2000?

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1996 – 2000

Publishers:   125 West 72nd Street, Suite 3M, New York, NY 10023 (in 1998)
Editors:   Daniel Roberts (in 1998)
Email Address:   pressltd@aol.com
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2002)

Pretext

Total Issues: 10 (to Jan-2005)

Principally a poetry magazine, but has published a considerable amount of fiction by Ballard and others. Circulation about 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 2000? – present

Publishers:   Pen & Inc Press
Website:   www.inpressbooks.co.uk/penandinc
Editors:   Jon Cook
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £5.00 (in 2000); £7.99 (in 2004)
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   twice-yearly

Prime Cuts

Magazine about comix featuring occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1987 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Fantagraphic Books, California
Editors:   Gary Groth
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $3.50
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   bimonthly