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Life and Letters

Country: UK
Total Issues: 154

A literary review which published one or two stories each issue, often experimental. Authors include Enid Bagnold, Nugent Barker, Lord Dunsany, D.H. Lawrence, Sean O'Casey.

Note: Life & Letters became the sponge that absorbed other literary/ critical magazines: To-Day in 1935, The London Mercury and Bookman in May-1939.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1928 – Apr-1935:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Sep-1935 – Jun-1945, as Life and Letters Today:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Jul-1945 – Jan-1946, as Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Feb-1946 – Jun-1950, as Life and Letters:

Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers

1928 – 1934: The Statesman Publishing Co.
1935 – 1950: Constable

Editors

  1928 – 1934: Desmond McCarthy
  1934: Hamish Miles
  1934 – 1935: R. Ellis Roberts
  1935 – 1950: Robert Herring

Frequency

monthly (but mostly quarterly, 1932 - 1938)

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 4

Life (Australia)

Country: Australia

Australian literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1920s

Life in Rio

Country: US

Pin-up magazine that contained some stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

The Life of Gene Tunney

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1927

Publishers:   Dell
Formats:   pulp
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Life's Romances

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1941 – Dec-1941: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Bell Syndicate
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Life Story Magazine

see under Today's Woman

The Lightbearer Twopenny Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1933: Story Paper Index

Publishers:   John Ritchie, Kilmarnock
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Lighter Side

Country: UK

Subtitled "The Colour Magazine Bi-Annual".

Issues & Index Sources: 1921 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Lighthouse [1960s]

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1961? – Aug-1967:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Editors: Terry Carr & Pete Graham
Online Sources: Fan History Project

Lighthouse Magazine [2003]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-2003 – #7, 2006: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Lighthouse Magazine, P.O. Box 106, Jarrow, NE32 3WZ
Editors:   Paul Calvin Wilson
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £5.00
Pagecounts:   50pp



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Lighthouse Magazine [2013]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 23 (as at Aug-2022)

A literary journal dedicated to publishing new writing and championing new writers.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 2013 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website:   www.storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse
Publishers:   Gateway Press
Editors:   Julia Webb

Lights Out!

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Robert R. McCammon fanzine/newsletter that published some original fiction including two unfinished works by McCammon.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1989 – Oct-1991:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Hunter Goatley, 44 East 600 South, Orem, Utah 84058
Editors: Hunter Goatley



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Lightspeed

Country: US
Total Issues: 179 (to Apr-2025)

Online magazine which also publishes e-book versions.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-2010 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #179, Apr-2025)

Website:   www.lightspeedmagazine.com
Publishers:   John Joseph Adams
Editors:   John Joseph Adams
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Lights Up

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s

Publishers:   St Paul, Minnesota
Editors:   Frances Mazo (in 1940)

Lilith

Country: US

Subtitled "the Jewish Women's Magazine"

Issues & Index Sources: 1976 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Website: www.lilith.org

Lillabulero

Country: US
Total Issues: 14

Subtitled "A Journal of Contemporary Writing".

Issues & Index Sources: 1964 – Spring 1974:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Editors: Russell Banks & William Matthews
Related Sites: The Southern Historical Collection

Lilliput

Country: UK
Total Issues: 276

One of the most popular magazines of the 1940s with a circulation of around 200,000 (dropping to 75,000 in the 1950s). Photography and personal anecdotes featured highly, but fiction was a key part. Authors include V.S. Pritchett, Wyndham Lewis, Evelyn Waugh, Lord Dunsany, L.A.G. Strong, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Georges Simenon, Doris Lessing, Maurice Richardson, John Wyndham, John Christopher.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1937 – Jul-1960:

#merges with Men Only

Publishers

  Jul-1937 – Apr-1941: Pocket Publications, Lincoln's Inn Chambers, 40-43 Chancery Lane, London, WC2
  May-1941 – Jan-1960: Hulton Press
  Feb-1960 – Jul-1960: Longacre Press

Editors

  1937 – 1940: Stefan Lorant
  1940 – 1947: Tom Hopkinson
  1947 – 1950: Richard Bennett
  1951 – Sep-1955: Jack Hargreaves
  Oct-1955? – Dec-1959: William Richardson
  Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: Denis Pitts

Formats

Jul-1937 – Feb/Mar-1954: digest
Apr-1954 – Jul-1960: octavo full-flat size

Prices

  Jul-1937 – Dec-1939: 6d
  Jan-1940 – Jun-1940: 7d
  Jul-1940 – Dec-1940: 8d
  Jan-1941 – Apr-1941: 9d
  May-1941 – Nov-1950: 1/-
  Dec-1950 – May/Jun-1951: 1/3d
  Jun/Jul-1951 – Dec-1951: 1/6d
  Jan-1952 – Jul-1960: 2/-

Pagecounts

  Jul-1937 – Dec-1940: 128pp
  Jan-1941 – Apr-1942: 112pp
  May-1942 – Dec-1946: 104pp
  Jan-1947 – Nov-1948: 120pp
  Dec-1948 – Dec-1949: 132pp
  Jan-1950 – Feb/Mar-1954: 96pp - 136pp
  Apr-1954 – Dec-1955: 88pp
  Jan-1956 – Dec-1959: 80pp
  Jan-1960 – Jul-1960: 72pp

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 4



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