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Story Digest

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

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-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 Parade

Childrens magazine that was sponsored by The Association for Arts in Childhood, Inc a group fostering appreciation of the arts among children, including music, dance, theater, radio and literature.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1936 – Dec-1954

Publishers

1936 – 1945: AAC (Association for Arts in Childhood).
1946 – 1954: Story Parade

Editors

Jan-1936 – Apr-1953: Lockie Parker
May-1953 – Dec-1954: Lucille Ogle

Frequency

monthly



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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	(FicMags has sample issues only)

Nov-1936 – Nov-1937, as Storyteller:	Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)	(FicMags is incomplete)
	Fictionmags Website	(FicMags is incomplete)

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

#merges with Men Only

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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The Strand Magazine (US)

Total Issues: 201

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1891 – Feb-1916

Editors: James W. Smith
Related Sites: MagazineArt



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The Strand Magazine [1998]

Total Issues: 28 (to Sep-2009)

A second revival of the original Strand, this one concentrates on mystery and supernatural fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1998 – present:	Mystery Short Fiction	(Missing: all issues after #27)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: all issues after #27)

Publishers:   The Strand Magazine, PO Box 1418, Birmingham, MI 48012-1418
Website:   www.strandmag.com
Editors:   A.F. Gulli
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   quarterly



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