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The Quest [1965]

Quarterly literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1965/1966 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Quest Inc., Cathedral Station
Editors:   Alexis Levitin
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.00
Pagecounts:   72pp

Questar

Total Issues: 13

A comics and media fan magazine with newsstand distribution. Most issues contain some amounts of fiction. Many changes took place in the last issue, including an increased fiction content.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1978 – #13, 1981: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   MW Communications, Pittsburgh from #3
Editors:   William G. Wilson; Horace L. Gold was Fiction Editor on last two issues
Formats:   slick
Prices:   various
Pagecounts:   various
Frequency:   roughly quarterly
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Quest Detective News

Total Issues: 1?

One-shot magazine/anthology of original stories by South African authors.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1950: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Dolphin Press (Pty.) Ltd., 16 Hans Street, Jeppe, Johannesburg
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   48pp
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Quick Action Detective Stories

see under New All-Action Stories

Quick-Trigger Stories of the West

see under Quick-Trigger Western Magazine

Quick-Trigger Western Magazine

Total Issues: 13

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Mar-1930
  Apr-1930 – Jan-1931, as Quick-Trigger Stories of the West

Publishers

  Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  25c

Frequency

  monthly to May-1930 and from Oct-1930; in between bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide

Quick-Trigger Western Novels Magazine

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1936 – Oct-1939?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Quick Trigger
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

The Quiver

Total Issues: 1284

A religious-orientated magazine that concentrated on articles and fiction of a highly moral and improving nature, its full title saying "designed for the defence of Biblical truth and the advancement of religion." The religious stranglehold was relaxed after Cassell's death in 1865. Only writer of note in early years was Mrs Henry Wood; later it published such popular authors as Rider Haggard ("When the World Shook," 1918 - 1919).

In the 1920s and 1930s the magazine was almost all fiction. In August 1940 the magazine shrank to digest size and thereafter looked more like The Dalesman, but still ran 2 or 3 stories per issue. The final issue started a new serial which ran over into The Sunday Companion.

Issues & Index Sources

  7-Sep-1861 – Jun-1956

#merges with Sunday Companion

Publishers

  7-Sep-1861 – Jan-1927: Cassell's
  Feb-1927 – Jun-1956: Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1861 – 1863: John Cassell
  1863: Charles Wright
  1863 – 1864: John Willis Clark
  1864 – 1865: Teignmouth Shore
  1865 – 1905: Bonavia Hunt
  1905 – 1909: David Williamson
  Oct-1909 – Aug-1953: Herbert Dakin Williams
  Sep-1953 – Jun-1956: John Erskine Tuck

Frequency

  weekly (also issued very attractive Christmas annuals); ?monthly in later years?

Sources

  BritLit3, AgeStory

QWF (Quality Women's Fiction)

Total Issues: 38 (to Dec-2002)

Small-press magazine aimed at producing the best in women's writing.

Issues & Index Sources:  1994 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Website:   www.allwriters.org/qwf.asp
Editors:   Jo Good
Frequency:   bimonthly

Racing Shorts

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1945?: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   7d
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Racket-Buster Detective

Total Issues: 1

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime Detective, Homicide Detective, Police Detective and Crime Investigator.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1949: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
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Racketeer and Gangland Stories

see under Gangland Stories

Racketeer Stories

Total Issues: 19

Racketeer Stories was one of Harold Hersey's less successful gangster pulp magazines, attempting to cash in on the popularity of Gangster Stories. It lasted for only 19 issues before being merged with its companion magazine, Gangland Stories.

The Dec-1929 issue was an ashcan issue containing no fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1929 – Mar/Apr-1932: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

#merges with Gangland Stories

Publishers

  Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c

Frequency

  mostly monthly, but bi-monthly from May/Jun-1931

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Rackets

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1956
Publishers:   Publishing Corporation
Sources:   MansWorld

Racket Stories

The rumor that a pulp magazine existed by this title has not been confirmed by any positive evidence, and none have been found. It may be confused with Racketeer Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: All issues; possibly phantom)
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Raconteur

Quarterly (paperback) magazine of original stories; each issue chooses a winner and runner-up. Sponsored by The European newspaper, who can publish any of the submitted stories under 1500 words.

Issues & Index Sources:  1993? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Raconteur Publications
Editors:   Graham Lord (in 1995)
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £5.99 (in 1995)
Pagecounts:   241pp (in 1995)

Racy

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Racy Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1949: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Radiant

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London


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