The Novel Magazine The Novel Magazine UK; Apr. 1905-Dec. 1937 (393 issues); C. Arthur Pearson, London; monthly; standard pulp; editors Percy Winn Everett (1905-?), E. Charles Vivian (1918-?), Miss N. W. Kennedy (in 1924 and 1934); Pearsons rival to Newness The Grand Magazine, an all-fiction stablemate to the more up-market Pearsons Magazine and The Royal Magazine; it had a bias towards light romance, but also included many mystery and ghost stories and, from Jan. 1912 featured a regular uncanny tale slot (later the basis for two anthologies); also published The White Ghost of Disaster by Mayn Clew Garrett (Jun. 1912, reprinted from the US May 1912 Popular Magazine) which presaged the sinking of the Titanic; authors included Sax Rohmer, Edgar Wallace, Talbot Mundy, A. M. Burrage, Elinor Mordaunt and many US writers (Achmed Abdullah, Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster); dropped most weird fiction by 1923 and shifted more to romance and mystery, publishing many stories by Agatha Christie and Richmal Crompton.
This list contains information from 6 issues out of a total of 393. A complete index to this and other British fiction magazines is forthcoming from the British Library. For more information click here.
· Cupid in Fiction · Misc. Material · ms; a section reprinting love scenes from famous books. This had extracts from Lorna Doone and David Copperfield.
· Where Was Madge? · Vera · na; a complete mystery novel well, 20 pages!
· Starkweathers Circular Hotel · W. L. Alden · ss (r); This was in a My Best Story feature, and the editor comments that they thought of this feature early on; in planning the magazine only to find, just before going to press, that another magazine had come up with the same idea.
· Mrs. Wade of Lagos · C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · ss (r); Another My Best Story. Curiously the editor actually comments that he thinks that many of the; Captain Kettle stories were better than this one and he plans to reprint some in future issues.
· One Way of Arranging It · Anton Tchekhoff · ss; This is in a feature called Masterpieces of Foreign Fiction.
· The Baker Girl · Miguel Ramos Carrion · ss; This is in a feature called Masterpieces of Foreign Fiction.
· The Ambassador to the Court of St. James · James Barr · ss
· Books in Brief · Misc. Material · ms; another series which reviews books by giving a short plot summary with quotes and then comment. The summaries nevertheless run for a; good couple of pages making them almost short stories. Books covered are The Garden of Allah Hichens and John Chilcote, M.P., Thurston.
· A Guest Without a Reference · DAN · ss; first in a series about Our Paying Guests.
· Little Dog Reanie · Helen Harcourt · ss; a childrens story in a special section, Our Pinafore Pages which also has a few poems and an uncredited story Rude Tom.
· An Episode in the Life of a Lady Nurse · L. G. Moberly · ss
· A Poor Sort of Policeman · K. R. G. Browne · ss; love story.
· Lady Alcuin Intervenes · W. L. George · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 16 21; a short semi-humorous story about a rich old lady who steals a diamond ring its a wwhydunnit.
· The Burglar and the Baby · Marten Cumberland · ss; a gushy story about how a baby reforms a burglar.
· The Dead Man on the Bus · Howel Evans · ss; detective story.
· Two in a Tunnel · Michael Kent · ss; ghost story.
· The Marquis and Miss Sally · O. Henry · ss Everybodys Magazine Jun 03; a reprint, tho the editor says the story wont be well known in Britain.
· A Kiss in the Dark · Ronald M. Newman · ss; a man tests the love of his fiancee.
· The Woodstock Plate · Eden Phillpotts · ss; one of his many Dartmoor stories.
· That Dog - and Others · G. E. Studdy · ss; a nice little feature written by the cover artist about his featured cover subject.
· The Peacocks Eye [Part 2] · Frederic Arnold Kummer · sl; serial about a stolen diamond.
Novel Magazine [No. 22, February 1927] ed. Anon. (Novel Magazine Corporation, 25¢, 128pp, pulp) Details taken from scan of Table of Contents. [Phil Stephensen-Payne]