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Magazine Issues

Stage Stories

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1929 – Apr-1929:

Publishers: Dell Publishing
Sources: AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Stake

A satirical magazine which takes the line that "our planet is indeed dying, and the people who are killing it have names and addresses, but why not sit on our hands and laugh until the bitter end?"

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

Publishers:   III Publishing, P.O. Box 170363, San Francisco, CA 94117-0363, USA
Website:   www.iiipublishing.com
Formats:   A4
Prices:   $3.95
Pagecounts:   36pp

Stand

A heavy emphasis on poetry and international fiction with occasional special issues, e.g. Eastern European literature, Australian literature, etc. Also sponsors an international fiction contest. Emphasis on social injustice issues and relationship with community. Publishes 10-12 stories per year. Incorporating Three Arts Quarterly and the North East Arts Review.

Issues & Index Sources: 1952 – present:	Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970	(Sader1 1952 - 1970 only; CommLit 1964 - 1992 only)
	Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines	(Sader1 1952 - 1970 only; CommLit 1964 - 1992 only)

Publishers:   Jon Silkin (London until 1966, then Newcastle); under aegis of University of Leeds
Website:   www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/stand.html
Editors:   Jon Silkin with various co-editors; currently John Kinsella & Michael Hulse (2000)
Formats:   first issue was mimeographed; became a pocketbook; now A5
Prices:   95p (in 1983)
Pagecounts:   84pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   BritLit4

Standard Designer

see under The Designer

Standard Journal

see under The Halfpenny Standard Journal

Standard Stories

Total Issues: 11

Mostly reprints; superseded by Best-Story Magazine. Full title Standard Stories incorporating The Smart Set initially at least.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1925 – May-1926:	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)	(FicMags has sample issues only)
	Fictionmags Website	(FicMags has sample issues only)

#superseded by Best-Story Magazine

Publishers

Hutchinson and Co., 34-36 Paternoster Row, London EC4

Editors

probably Evelyn Hornibrook

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

96pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

Stanley Ellin's Mystery Magazine

THIS DID NOT EXIST! USA; published "Fool's Mate" by Stanley Ellin, 1948

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948

Staple New Writing

Mainstream poems and short stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1982 – ?:

Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines

(1985 - 1986 only)

Publishers:   Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
Editors:   Bob Windsor & Donald Measham (in 1997)
Frequency:   quarterly

The Star

London evening newspaper that ran from 1888 to 1960.

The Star had a long tradition of publishing short stories and serials, with many well-known authors contributing their work to the paper down the years. Famous writers whose stories appeared in The Star include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Israel Zangwill, Emile Zola, Walter de la Mare, Katharine Tynan, Ursula Bloom and Richmal Crompton. Fiction featured prominently in The Star for much of its lifespan.

Issues & Index Sources: 1888 – 1960:

Index to The Star

Frequency: daily

Stardate

Total Issues: 11

Fanzine started as a gaming magazine. The focus changed radically for the last 4 issues which published a fair amount of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 198? – Mar/Apr-1986:

Miller/Contento

Star Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 11+5=16

Star Detective was a weird menace pulp that ran for 11 issues in the late 1930s before being replaced by Uncanny Tales, which ran for a further 5 issues.