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The Penny Story-Teller & Popular Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 248

The first 1d illustrated story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Aug-1832 – 21-Sep-1836: FictionMags Index (sample issue only; may have continued to 31-Dec-1840)

Publishers

  #1, 183? – #10, 183?: William Stevens Ltd., Family Herald Press, London WC
  #11, 183? – #24, 183?: William Howden
  #25, 183? – #130, 183?: Charles Penny
  #131, 183? – #248, 183?: S. Kay

Formats

  quarto

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  46pp

Frequency

  weekly

The Penny Sunday Times and People's Police Gazette

Country: UK
Total Issues: 278

Consisted entirely of fiction and fabricated police reports in order to by-pass the stamp duty on newspapers. Succeeded because of its many Dickens imitations like "The Life and Adventures of Martin Puzzlewhit" by Bos (1843).

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1841 – 3-Jan-1847
Publishers:   Edward Lloyd
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The Penny Wonder

Country: UK

Boys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.

Issues & Index Sources:  1912 – ?
Publishers:   Harmsworth
Frequency:   weekly

Penthouse (UK)

Country: UK

Although now thought of as a US magazine, Penthouse started as a British magazine and stayed separate from the US magazine even when the latter was launched. In the Playboy mould, it regularly published fiction, though less frequently and with less distinction than the magazine it emulated, and for some years Graham Masterton was fiction editor.

There are news reports that the magazine was relaunced some time in the 2000s but this is believed to be simply a UK distribution of the US magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1965 – Dec-1998: FictionMags Index (Missing: All after Dec-1984)

Publishers

  1965 – Sep-1997?: Bob Guccione
  Nov-1997? – 1998: Tom Hilditch

Formats

  slick men's magazine

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
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Penthouse (US)

Country: US
Total Issues: 604 (to Fall 2023)

Launched as a US version of the British Penthouse, the first four years reprinted covers and some internal features from the British version until, in late 1973, it established a separate presence with original covers and features.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1969 – present: FictionMags Index (incomplete after Dec-2007)
Website:   penthousemagazine.com
Publishers:   Bob Guccione
Formats:   slick men's magazine
Frequency:   monthly
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
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Penumbra [2011]

Country: US
Total Issues: 39

Online SF magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-2011 – Dec-2014: Science Fiction Index
Publishers:   Musa Publishing
Editors:   C.A. Summers
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Penumbra [2020]

Country: US
Total Issues: 5 (as at Apr-2025)

"A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism".

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 2020 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any after #5, 2024)
Website:   www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/penumbra
Publishers:   Hippocampus Press
Editors:   S. T. Joshi
Frequency:   annual
 
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Penumbric Speculative Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 15+31=46 (to Apr-2025)

Low-paying online magazine

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-2002 – Dec-2004: Science Fiction Index (sample issues only)
  Jun-2020 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any after Apr-2025)

Website:   www.penumbric.com

Publishers

  Creative Press, Denver, Colorado 80204

Editors

  Jeff Georgeson
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The People

Country: UK

Weekly newspaper that published fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Gerald Kersh, who also had a regular column in the 1940s under the name Piers England.

Issues & Index Sources

  16-Oct-1881 – 19-Dec-1971
  2-Jan-1972 – present, as The Sunday People

Website:   www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/sunday-people

Publishers

  Odhams Press, London

Frequency

  weekly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

People's Five Cent Novelettes

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  1860
Publishers:   J.W. Mange
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


The People's Friend

Country: UK
Total Issues: 7711 (to 27-Jan-2018)

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

Issues & Index Sources:  14-Jun-1869 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk
Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee; later D.C. Thomson
Editors:   currently Sinclair Matheson
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The People's Friend Story Library

Country: UK

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1970 – ?
Publishers:   D.C. Thomson, Dundee
Formats:   small booklet, 132pp
Frequency:   twice-monthly

People's Home Journal [Peters, 1885]

Country: US
Total Issues: 56

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1890
Publishers:   Peters & Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


People's Home Journal [Lupton, 1885]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1929: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   F.M. Lupton
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

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People's Illustrated Monthly Telephone

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1881 – Jan-1882: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)
Publishers:   George H. Gilman, Houlton, ME
Formats:   12 x 17¾"
Pagecounts:   8
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


The People's Journal [1846]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources

  3-Jan-1846 – Jul-1849: Index to Periodical Literature
  Jul-1849 – Jun-1851, as People's and Howitt's Journal: Index to Periodical Literature (incorporates Howitt's Journal)

Editors

  John Saunders, William Howitt

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  weekly


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