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Story

Total Issues: 141

Began in Vienna and later Majorca before settling in New York in 1933. Achieved fame as the only exclusive all-story literary magazine of the period. Authors include Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Howard Fast, J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller. New series includes Amy Bloom, Susan Power, Melanie Sumner, Brady Udall, Alison Baker, Nathan Englander, Joyce Carol Oates,William Kotzwinkle. There have been several representative anthologies. Circulation 40,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr/May-1931 – Summer 1948: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Spring 1960 – Sep/Oct-1963: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  1989 – Winter 2000: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Burnett & Foley and, from 1936, as Story Press; new series, Richard & Lois Rosenthal, 107 Dana Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45207 (1989 - 1999)

Editors

  Whit Burnett & Martha Foley; White & Hailie Burnett; Lois Rosenthal (1989 - 2000)

Frequency

  monthly, later bimonthly then quarterly; during 1950s appeared twice-yearly as a pocketbook anthology; resumed as a quarterly magazine in 1960
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Story-A-Day

Childrens magazine that was issued once a week, containing seven different stories one for each day of the week, verses and fun, and family council corner.

Issues & Index Sources:  24-Sep-1953 – ?
Prices:   25c

Story: a magazine of new stories

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  1946 – 1948
Publishers:   Roy Day Publications, 53 The Charter Road, Woodford Green, Buckhurst
Editors:   Roy Day
Prices:   1/3d

Story Digest

Mentioned in Henry Steeger's article in Pulp Era #67.

Issues & Index Sources:  1946 – ?
Publishers:   Popular Publications

Story Digest [1996]

Short stories, poetry and articles. Each issue is themed. No payment.

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – present (first issue was a newsletter entitled Your World Magazine)
Publishers:   Story Digest, Louisville, KY
Editors:   Shaun Lockhart
Formats:   large digest
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Story Digest Magazine

Total Issues: 4

Four separate single-author digest magazines issued simultaneously.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1970, as Believe It or Not (non-fiction ghost-story collection)
  Jun-1970, as Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery: Miller/Contento
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Jun-1970, as Dark Shadows: Miller/Contento
  Jun-1970, as Tarzan of the Apes: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Golden Press

Editors

  Wallace I. Green

Formats

  digest

Prices

  60c

Pagecounts

  144pp

Frequency

  4 issues released simultaneously
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Storyettes
Issues & Index Sources:  12-Oct-1897 – 16-Dec-1899
Publishers:   in London
Frequency:   weekly?

The Story Journal

 see under The Sunday Journal

The Story Paper

Total Issues: 130

Retitled The Family Story Paper from #105.

Issues & Index Sources:  1875 – 1877
Publishers:   in London
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   weekly

Story Quarterly

Total Issues: 37 (to Dec-2001)

An independent magazine of the short story, published by an Illinois non-profit corporation. See American Story: The Best of Story Quarterly ed. Anne Brashler & others (Cane Hill Press, 1990). Circulation 1,500.

Issues & Index Sources:  1974 – present
Publishers:   P.O. Box 1416, Northbrook, IL 60065 (in 1998 - 2000); 431 Sheridan Rd., Kenilworth, IL 60043 (in 2002)
Website:   www.storyquarterly.com/
Editors:   Diane Williams (in 1998); Anne Brashler (in 2000); M.M.M. Hayes (in 2002);
Email Address:   storyquarterly@hotmail.com
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   240pp
Frequency:   quarterly, though currently an annual!
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Story-Teller [1907]

Total Issues: 354+13=367

The best all-round all-fiction magazine of its day, The Story-Teller featured stories by William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton (first Father Brown stories), Sax Rohmer.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1907 – Oct-1936: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
  Nov-1936 – Nov-1937, as Storyteller: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags is incomplete)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Apr-1907 – Apr-1927: Cassell's
  May-1927 – Nov-1937: Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Apr-1907 – May-1928: Newman Flower
  Jun-1928 – Nov-1937: Clarence Winchester

Formats

  Apr-1907 – Oct-1936: standard pulp
  Nov-1936 – Nov-1937: standard format on coated stock

Prices

  4½d
  in 1936: 1/-

Pagecounts

  174pp (at outset - settled to 128pp, dropped to 112pp in 1937)

Frequency

  monthly (but combined issue for Jul/Aug-1926)

Sources

  AgeStory
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The Storyteller [1946]

Called itself "Britain's miniature modern fiction digest."

Issues & Index Sources:  1946 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Pan Press Publications, London
Editors:   Rita Z. Paneth
Prices:   6d
Frequency:   monthly

Storyteller [1994]

Total Issues: 28 (to June-2001)

Canada's premier short-story magazine. Fiction still relatively minor.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1994 – present
Publishers:   TYO Communications (Terry Tyo), 856 Wingate Drive, Kanata, Ottawa K1G 1S5 (in 2001); 3687 Twin Falls Place, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1V 1W6 (in 2005)
Website:   www.storytellermagazine.com
Editors:   Melanie Fogel
Email Address:   info@storytellermagazine.com
Formats:   quarto quasi-slick
Pagecounts:   c. 44pp
Frequency:   quarterly (Vol 4 #1 not published)

The Storyteller [1979]

 see also under Copper Toadstool

Storyteller Contest

All stories submitted as "contest entries" with \25 being paid for the prizewinning story and \5 for each other story. Contained a story by Angela Carter in July 1962.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Liverpolitan Ltd., Liverpolitan House, Claughton Road, Birkenhead, Cheshire
Formats:   digest
Prices:   2/-
Pagecounts:   128
Frequency:   monthly

Storytime

Contains "Short stories, serials, instructional & original features for children."

Issues & Index Sources:  1946 – ?
Publishers:   The Merlin Press, Filey, Yorks.
Editors:   June E. Forde
Frequency:   quarterly

Story Western Magazine

Listed in DinWest, but not located.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Sources:   DinWest

The Strand Magazine [1891]

Total Issues: 710

The leading UK popular fiction magazine, a major trendsetter at the turn of the last century and still a well-known name in the present.

It published most of the famous writers of its day, in particular A. Conan Doyle (the "Sherlock Holmes" short stories, which set the fashion for series stories), W.W. Jacobs, H.G. Wells, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, A.E.W. Mason, Anthony Hope, O. Henry, P.G. Wodehouse, Gilbert Frankau, Agatha Christie, Sapper, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers.

See also under The New Strand.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1891 – Mar-1950: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
Index to the Strand Magazine

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Publishers

  George Newnes

Editors

  Jan-1891 – Dec-1930: Herbert Greenhough Smith
  Jan-1931 – Sep-1941: Reeves Shaw
  Oct-1941 – May-1942: R.J. Minney
  Jun-1942 – Sep-1946: Reginald Pound
  Oct-1946 – Mar-1950: Macdonald Hastings

Formats

  Jan-1891 – Sep-1941: standard
  Oct-1941 – Mar-1950: small digest

Prices

  6d

Frequency

  monthly (except May/Jun-1947 combined, hence 711 numbered issues)

Sources

  BritLit3, AgeStory
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