Boys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.

In the Playboy mould, it has published fiction, though less frequently and with less distinction than the magazine it emulates.

Separate British edition of US magazine. Regularly publishes fiction. For some years Graham Masterton was fiction editor.

Total Issues: 7246 (to 6-Dec-2008)

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

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A story paper with many serials and short stories, Scottish in flavour.

Story-paper; contributors include Anne S. Stephens, William Eyster, Prentiss Ingraham.

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Total Issues: 82+14+39+78+24+42=279

Ran Frank L. Packard's "Jimmy Dale" stories; authors include H. Bedford-Jones, J. Allan Dunn, Harold Lamb, Achmed Abdullah, Perley Poore Sheehan, George Allan England, William Merriam Rouse.

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#superseded by Complete Stories

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Total Issues: 205

Mostly women's-orientated fiction, usually romantic or mystery. Mostly a serial episode each issue plus one or two stories; title contracted to People's Stories in 1909 (though cover showed it as People's 1d Stories).

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Total Issues: 52

Serialised Prest's notorious "The String of Pearls" about Sweeny Todd.

Mainstream monthly, tabloid, on newsprint that featured some fiction.

Featured "Features, Stories, Pictures".

Reprint magazine binding two unsold copies of Ginger Stories, and/or three back numbers of Snappy Stories and/or Live Stories.