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Space-Wise

Total Issues: 4

Primarily non-fiction with a serial and one story.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1969 – #4, 1970: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Martec Publishing Group Ltd, London, England.
Editors:   Derek Threadgall
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   4/6d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Spare Moments

A popular miscellany; it published at least one short story per issue, including Thomas Burke's debut story

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1903
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

Sparkling Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1951
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Sparkling Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1948: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Brown Watson
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

Sparkling Love (Stories)

Total Issues: 1+1=2

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1950, as Sparkling Love
  Jul-1950, as Sparkling Love Stories

Publishers

  Avon Book Co.

Editors

  Donald A. Wollheim

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP

The Spartan

Total Issues: 3

A magazine for boys of 9-12 years of age. The high spot of the magazine was a reprint of "The Coral Island" by R. M. Ballantyne; the rest of the paper was a mixture of short articles, a second brief serial, a short story and competitions. The third issue announced that the following month they would begin reprinting "The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's" by Talbot Baines, but it was never to appear.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1953 – Aug/Sep-1953
Publishers:   16 Lister Lane, Bolton, Bradford 2
Editors:   B. Hoyle & W. Barker; G. Suddards (Assistant Editor)
Formats:   5" x 7¾"
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   monthly; bi-monthly

Speakeasy Stories

Total Issues: 4

One of several gangster pulps published by Harold B. Hersey. However, by the time it was published, in 1931, public interest in gangsters was fading and it only lasted for 2 issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr/May-1931 – Oct/Nov-1931: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Special Detective

Total Issues: 3

Launched by the then editor of Detective Fiction Weekly, Special Detective featured a blend of fiction (mainly by authors familiar from Detective Fiction Weekly) and factual articles. After the third issue the former were phased out and the magazine continued as a true crime magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1937 – Nov-1937: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Haig-Kostka Publications Inc., 434 Main Street, Mount Morris, Illinois
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
 
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Special Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1937 – ?

Publishers

  1948 – mid 1950s: Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
  in 1950s: Skye Publishing Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, NY, 60 W 46th St., New York, NY, and Louisville, KY

Frequency

  bimonthly

Special Report - Fiction

A short-lived product of Whittle Communication LP which flourished in the early '90s, as part of a set of SPECIAL REPORT magazines explicitly aimed at doctors' offices and similar sites.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s
Publishers:   Whittle Communication LP
Formats:   slick bedsheet

The Spectator [1711]

Total Issues: 555+80=635

Mayo says: "On the whole the Spectator published less fiction than the Tatler, perhaps because it gave increased emphasis to literary criticism. Nevertheless The Spectator did make one new and significant addition to the repertory of 18thC magazine fiction: the oriental tale." Examples are "The Vision of Mirza", "The Letter from a Monkey", "The Story of Hilpa".

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Mar-1711 – 6-Dec-1712
  1714

Publishers

  Addison & Steele, London

Editors

  Addison & Steele

Frequency

  daily

Sources

  BritLit1

The Spectator [1828]

Primarily a Conservative political weekly, but still publishes the occasional short story, e.g. "Birthday and Christmas" by Tim Parks (18-Dec-1999).

Issues & Index Sources

  1828 – present: Index to Periodical Literature (1882 - 1906 only)

Publishers

  Robert Stephen Rintoul, London

Website

  www.spectator.co.uk

Editors

  1861 – 1897: R. H. Hutton
  1898 – 1925: John St Loe Strachey
  in 1962: Iain Hamilton
  ?: Dominic Lawson
  in 1997: Frank Johnson
  in 2000: Boris Johnson

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  BritLit2
 

Spectral Tales

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1988 – #2, 1989: Miller/Contento

Spectrum

Issues & Index Sources

  Winter 1957 – present?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  University of California, Santa Barbara

Editors

  Georgia Pearce (in 1959)

Frequency

  1957 – 1975: three times a year
  1976 – 1982: twice a year
  1983 – present: annual

Spectrum SF

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 2000 – #9, 2002: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Spectrum Publishing, Aberdeen

Editors

  Paul Fraser

Formats

  digest

Prices

  2000 – 2002: £3.50
  2002: £3.99

Pagecounts

  160pp

Frequency

  2000 – 2002: roughly quarterly
  2002: irregular
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Spectrum Stories

Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1985: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Wonder Press, Louisville, KY
Editors:   Walter L. Gammons
Formats:   A4 size (spiral bound)
Prices:   $3.95
Pagecounts:   96pp

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