Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1991 – #7, 1993:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: v1 #6, 1993)

Publishers:   Broken Arrow Publishing, Worcester, MA.

Strange Detective Mysteries specialised, as the title implied, in "bizarre, thrilling, eerie-laden, mystery stories" and featured a host of bizarre crime fighters. Briefly, for five issues in 1938, it changed its name to Captain Satan and concentrated on the eponymous hero, but soon reverted to the original title, publishing a total of 33 issues in 6 series.

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Canadian version of Strange Detective Mysteries.

The earliest issue known of this title is v6 #3, August 1941. This, and the following issue (v6 #4, November 1941) are the only issues in which the numbering is the same as the US edition from which it reprints, so they are probably among the first issues. The latest issue seen is v11 #30, November 1945. It seems to have been monthly for the entire period, which would have produced at least 48 issues.

In the early issues, the contents of an issue of Strange Detective Mysteries and an issue of Dime Mystery Magazine were mixed together and republished over two issues of the Canadian magazine, with a couple of stories squeezed out.

After the US edition of Strange Detective Mysteries folded, issues of Dime Mystery Magazine were reprinted, abridged, in alternating issues of Strange Detective Mysteries, with the intervening issues filled with random reprints, mostly from Detective Fiction Weekly of the 1930's.

British reprint edition of Strange Detective Mysteries.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-2011 – present:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #23, Jun-2020)

Website:   www.rainfallsite.com/Chapbooks01.html
Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5

A magazine of weird fiction.

Subtitled "a queer journal".

Online SF magazine.

Strangelet is a journal of speculative fiction that publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic stories/comics, and artwork six times a year with an anthology at the end of each year.

Semi-professional magazine.

Strange Romances was another one of those ever present publications that seek to capitalize upon sensationalized accounts of true and often gruesome events. Here we have detailed reviews of off-beat romantic relationships ending in tragedy. Some of the fictionalized accounts do have a hint of weird menace or supernatural occurences but none of them are truly of this nature. Three issues have been seen and others may well exist.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-2020 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #2, Jan-2021)

Website:   www.rainfallsite.com/Chapbooks01.html
Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £5.50

"An occasional magazine devoted to Clark Ashton Smith".

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Reprint magazine with stories from Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures.

Strange Suicides may well have been the most bizarre entry in the magazine field of the 1930's. The magazine's policy was given in the first issue. It was to cover, "The choice of the most dramatic events in our field, but not to neglect the unknown". Although the magazine purports to be true, it is probably mostly fictional.

A Hersey magazine put out pseudonymously; he called it one of his "missteps in the dark"!