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Magazine Issues

Shield Weekly

Total Issues: 22

Non-fiction account of the exploits of various detectives, later rewritten as Nick Carter stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Dec-1900 – 4-May-1910:

Nick Carter Stories and Other Series: Part II

Publishers: Street & Smith
Frequency: weekly

The Shilling Magazine

Total Issues: 13?

An illustrated miscellany of literature. Note: This is not the same as Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine (Jan-1845 - Jun-1848), which carried some fiction but was mostly articles, poetry, reviews and much satire.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1865 – 1867

Editors: Samuel Lucas

Shimmer

Total Issues: 10 (to Sep-2009)

"A speculative fiction magazine, published quarterly. Each issue will contain new fiction from emerging and established writers. We are more concerned with excellent writing than with genre boundaries - so you'll find fantasy, science fiction, horror, magical realism, and stories that defy categorization."

Issues & Index Sources: Autumn 2005 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   PO Box 58591, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0591
Website:   www.shimmerzine.com
Editors:   Joy Marchand
Prices:   $5.00
Frequency:   quarterly

Shock

Total Issues: 3

Short-lived pulp magazine concentrating on off-trail weird-mystery stories.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1948 – Jul-1948:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   New Publications imprint of Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Shock-The Magazine of Terrifying Tales

Total Issues: 3

Companion to Keyhole Mystery, this version of Shock only lasted for three issues and reprinted classic stories from authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner and Jack London. Subsequently resurrected as Shock Mystery Tales.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1960 – Sep-1960:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Winston Publications
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   CookMDE


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Shock Mystery Tales

Total Issues: 7

Bibliographically a continuation of Shock-The Magazine of Terrifying Tales, this was a weird-menace companion to Web Terror Stories rather than a supernatural weird fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1961 – Feb-1963:	Miller/Contento	(Missing: Dec-1962 - may not exist)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Dec-1962 - may not exist)

Publishers

Pontiac Publishing

Editors

Bart Anders

Formats

Dec-1961 – Jul-1962: digest
Oct-1962 – Feb-1963: large flat format

Prices

35c

Pagecounts

Dec-1961 – Jul-1962: 128pp
Oct-1962 – Feb-1963: 96pp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Sources

CookMDE



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Shock Tales

Total Issues: 4?

Probably retitled Suspense Tales at some stage.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1959 – Sep-1959?:

Miller/Contento

(incomplete)

Publishers

M.F. Enterprises, N.Y.

Editors

Jan-1959: Myron Fass
Sep-1959: Christopher Plumberton

Formats

large format newsprint

Prices

35c

Pagecounts

68pp

Shock Totem

A bi-annual dark fantasy and horror publication.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-2009 – present

Publishers:   K. Allen Wood
Website:   www.shocktotem.com
Editors:   K. Allen Wood
Formats:   paperback
Prices:   $5.99
Frequency:   bi-annual

Shoggoth

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1992 – #2, 1993:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Chris A. Masters, Melbourne, Australia.


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Short Fiction by Women

Dead according to Mary Soon Lee's website.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1991 – ?

Publishers: Stuyvesant Stn., NY
Frequency: thrice yearly

Short Short Story Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1932? – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Short Short Story Publishing Co.
Editors:   Thomas M. Kelly
Formats:   11.25" x 8.5"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   12pp

Short Stories [1890]

Total Issues: 1114

Initially most of the stories -- "25 stories for 25 cents" -- were reprints from all over, including translations; after 1910 converted into an all-fiction pulp adventure magazine, with stories by Sax Rohmer, W.C. Tuttle, Harold Lamb, Max Brand, Talbot Mundy, L. Patrick Greene, James B. Hendryx, Edgar Wallace, etc.

The final issue stated that it was whole number 2014, but a huge mistake was made in whole number totals between December 10, 1948 (whole no. 1029) and December 25, 1948 (whole no. 1930), a mistake of 900 whole numbers that was never corrected. So, subtracting 900 from 2014, we get a total run of 1114 issues.

There was also a sequencing error in 1946 when Vol. 197 No. 3 was followed by Vol. 198 No. 4.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1890 – Sep-1914:

Fictionmags Website

(incomplete)

Oct-1914 – Jun-1915, as Short Stories with Keith's House Plans:

Fictionmags Website

Jul-1915 – Sep-1954, as Short Stories [1890]:

Fictionmags Website

(incomplete)

Sep-1956 – Feb-1959, as Short Stories [1890]:

Fictionmags Website

Apr-1959 – Aug-1959, as Short Stories for Men:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Jun-1890 – Feb-1904: The Current Literature Publishing Company
  Mar-1904 – Feb-1910: The Short Stories Company, Ltd.
  Mar-1910 – 10-Nov-1937: Doubleday
  10-Dec-1937 – Sep-1954: Short Stories, Inc.
  Sep-1956 – Jun-1957: Codel Publishing Company, East 42nd St, New York
  Dec-1957 – Aug-1959: American Short Stories Corporation

Editors

  ? – 1912: Harry Peyton Steger
  1912 – 1929: Harry E. Maule
  1929 – Sep-1932: R. de S. Horn
  Oct-1932 – 1936?: Harry E. Maule
  1936 – Sep-1954: Dorothy McIlwraith
  Sep-1956 – Jun-1957: M.D. Gregory
  Apr-1959 – Aug-1959: Frank Belknap Long (associate editor)

Formats

  Jun-1890 – Feb-1910: smaller than standard
  Mar-1910 – Jun-1953: pulp
  Jul-1953 – Feb-1959: digest
  Apr-1959 – Aug-1959: large size

Frequency

  Jun-1890 – Aug-1921: monthly
  10-Aug-1921 – 25-Feb-1949: twice-monthly (no issues for 25-Dec-1927, 25-Jun-1947, or 25-May-1948)
  Mar-1949 – Apr-1954: monthly
  Jul-1954 – Sep-1954: bi-monthly
  Sep-1956 – Aug-1959: bi-monthly (although only one issue, Jun-1957, between Mar-1957 and Dec-1957)

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Short Stories [1893]

see also under Magazine of Short Stories

Short Stories (UK)

Mostly reprint of US original, but issues not necessarily in conjunction. Merged with the UK edition of West in March 1954 and was thereafter known as Short Stories incorporating West on the cover at least.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1920 – Feb-1954:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Mar-1954 – Feb-1955?, as Short Stories incorporating West:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Aug-1958 – Mar-1959?, as Short Stories:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: any after Mar-1959)

Publishers

World's Work

Editors

maybe H. Norman Evans in 1930s

Formats

pulp

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

  Mar-1941 – Jun-1941: 80pp
  Aug-1941 – Mar/Apr-1942: 72pp
  Jul-1942 – ?: 64pp

Frequency

initially fortnightly; then monthly

Sources

AgeStory



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Short Stories (Australia)

Australian reprint edition of Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Short Stories (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: Pulpster11

Short Stories (Australia)

Also known as Writers world short stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1988? – 1998?

Publishers:   Surfers Paradise, Qld.; Tobago Pty Ltd
Editors:   Peter Hall
Frequency:   weekly