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The Weekly Magazine

See Waite The Quest for Bloods p.103.

Issues & Index Sources:  22-Dec-1847 – Feb-1848
Publishers:   Wilkins
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Weekly News

"Serial stories of 40,000 - 60,000 words, with strong plot and love interest".

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, Courier Place, Dundee
Frequency:   weekly

The Weekly Saturday Star Journal

see under Saturday Journal

The Weekly Tale-Teller

Total Issues: 365

Carried 7 or 8 short stories each issue with short serials. Noted for "Sanders of the River" stories by Edgar Wallace; usually carried a weird story each issue along with more general light-hearted stuff. Authors include A.M. Burrage, Alice & Claude Askew, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Douglas Newton, M.P. Shiel.

Issues & Index Sources:  8-May-1909 – 29-Apr-1916: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Harry Shurey, London
Editors:   Isabel Thorne
Formats:   slim, saddle-stapled magazine on pulp paper, usually unillustrated
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   48-56pp
Frequency:   weekly
Sources:   AgeStory

The Weekly Telegraph

Probably a weekly supplement of The Sheffield Telegraph and sometimes referred to as the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph. Carried a considerable amount of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Frequency:   weekly

Weekly Welcome

Total Issues: 3142 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Feb-1896 – 1-Oct-1938
  8-Oct-1938 – 9-Dec-1939, as Woman's Welcome
  16-Dec-1939 – 30-Jan-1960, as Weekly Welcome: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  D.C. Thomson, Dundee (moved to London in 1912)

Formats

  large digest (octavo)

Frequency

  weekly
 

Wee Wisdom

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Unity School of Christianity
Editors:   Jane Palmer (in 1948)
Formats:   10" x 7.25" (in 1948)
Prices:   15c (in 1948)
Pagecounts:   34pp (in 1948)
Frequency:   monthly

Weird Adventures (fnz)

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1978 – Fall 1978: Miller/Contento

Weird and Occult Library

Total Issues: 3

Mixture of reprints from Columbia magazines and old material.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1960 – #3, 1960: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Editors:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   issues released simultaneously
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Weird and Occult Miscellany

Total Issue: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  1960: Miller/Contento
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Weirdbook

Total Issues: 30

Semi-professional magazine, some issues were also done in hardcover as collectors' editions. See also Toadstool Wine and Eerie Country and its successors, which were issued to decrease the backlog of stories bought for Weirdbook, and Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons, a special issue of Weirdbook.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1968 – #30, 1997: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   W. Paul Ganley, Buffalo, N.Y.
Editors:   W. Paul Ganley
Formats:   A4 large format
Pagecounts:   pagination varied 32pp-96pp
Frequency:   annual, sometimes twice annual
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Weirdbook Encores

see under Eerie Country

The Weirdbook Sampler

see under Eerie Country

Weird Heroes

Total Issues: 8

A series that copied the magazines, calling itself 'A New American Pulp', in a mixed anthology/novel series. Vols. 1,2,6 and 8 were magazine/anthologies, whilst the others were complete novels, emulating the hero pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1975 – Nov-1977: Index to SF Anthologies & Collections
Publishers:   Pocket Books
Editors:   Byron Preiss
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   $1.50-$1.75
Pagecounts:   various pages
Frequency:   roughly quarterly

Weirdly Supernatural

Total Issues: 2

Small press magazine containing a blend of fiction and non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 2001/2002 – #2, 2004: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Haunted River, Norfolk, England
Website:   www.hauntedriver.co.uk
Editors:   Jonathan Harker

Weird Mystery

Total Issues: 4

Reprint magazine selecting from Fantastic and Fantastic Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1970 – Summer 1971: Miller/Contento
Monthly Murders
Publishers:   Ultimate Publishing
Editors:   Sol Cohen (pseudonymously)
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   CookMDE
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Weird Pocket Library

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1943: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan, Ltd., London, England.
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Weird Science Illustories

Total Issues: 1

This odd little magazine is undated but is believed to have slipped out sometime in the Fifties. The comic strip occupies just under half of the issue. Printed in Ireland.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 195?: Miller/Contento

Weird Sex Tales

Total Issues: 1

A pornographic science fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1972: Miller/Contento
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