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Stand Magazine [v24 #4, Autumn 1983] ed. Jon Silkin (Stand, 95p, 80pp, 8" x 5.75")

Standard Stories
          Standard Stories — UK; Jul. 1925-May 1926 (11 issues); Hutchinson, London; monthly; standard pulp; mostly reprints; superseded by Best-Story Magazine.
           This list contains information from 1 issue out of a total of 11. A complete index to this and other British fiction magazines is forthcoming from the British Library. For more information click here.

Standard Stories [v1 #1, July 1925] (Hutchinson, pulp) This first issue is interesting because it asked authors to select their favourite amongst their own stories. [MA:3574]
  • · Out of the Ruins · Sir Philip Gibbs · ss Cosmopolitan Dec ’24; the story he least dislikes because its events were later replicated in real life.
  • · Good Hunting, Old Chap! · Sapper · ss (r); not a Bulldog Drummond story but a very moving story based on McNeile’s own dog. McNeile loved his dog and couldn’t forgive himself when he was put down. This story was clearly cathartic.
  • · The Clock · A. E. W. Mason · ss Paget, 1910; science fiction. A clock briefly stops time. Mason says the story is based on his own clock which used to perform oddly.
  • · Picq Plays the Hero · Leonard Merrick · ss (r); the only story critics and reviewers had a common agreement about how good it was.
  • · The Ghost With the Smiling Eyes · Berta Ruck · ss (r); chosen because it brings back memories of her grandmother. Ruck was the wife of Oliver Onions and it was when they had just married and Berta was combing her hair that the crackling caused by the static made Onions think how unique that sound is; and which inspired the ghost story “The Beckoning Fair One”. Berta (the name is short for Roberta) was a very close friend of Edith Nesbit and Nesbit used her name for the eldest girl in The Railway Children.
  • · The Decree Made Absolute · Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · ss McClure’s Jun ’08; Hilaire’s sister - chosen because Marie felt strongly about the moral of her story - that children should not be separated from their mother.
  • · The Riddle of Countess Runa · Anthony Hope · ss (r); he liked the way he’d brought out the romance and humour in life.
  • · The Girl at the Gate · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss (r); because it captures a time now long gone.
  • · A Lustrum of Fidelity · Edith Bigelow · ss The Smart Set Nov ’02; this doesn’t look like a favourite story - more like a space filler.
  • · New Friends and Old · A. M. Chisholm · ss The Smart Set Jun ’04; another space filler.

Standard Stories [v 1 #3, September 1925] ed. Anon. (Hutchinson and Co., 1/-, 197-288pp, standard pulp) [PSP]

Star Detective

Star Detective [v 1 #1, May 1935] ed. James Randall (Western Fiction Publishing Co., 15¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by J. W. Scott) [MH]

Star Detective Magazine [v 1 #2, August 1935] ed. James Randall (Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc., 15¢, 128pp+, pulp, cover by J. W. Scott) [STM]

Star Detective Magazine [v 1 #5, July 1936] ed. James Randall (Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc., 10¢, 128pp+, pulp) [STM]

Star Detective Magazine [v 2 #1, March 1937] (10¢, pulp) Information from EBAY auction.

Star Detective Magazine [v 2 #2, August 1937] ed. James Randall (Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc., 10¢, 112pp+, pulp) [STM]

Star Detective [v 2 #4, July 1938] (Western Fiction Publishing Co. Inc., 10¢, 112pp+, pulp) [STM]

Star Detective [v2 #5, November 1938] ed. Anon. (Western Fiction Publishing Co., Inc., 10¢, pulp) [VU; from ToC]

Star Magazine

Star Magazine [v 1 #1, November 1930] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by H. C. Murphy) [ZZ]

Star Magazine [v 1 #2, December 1930] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Gerard C. Delano) [ZZ]

Star Magazine [v 1 #3, January 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Frederick Witton) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 1 #4, February 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Duncan McMillan) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 1 #5, March 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Gerard C. Delano) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 1 #6, April 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Duncan McMillan) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 2 #1, May 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Gerard C. Delano) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 2 #2, June 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Duncan McMillan) [BK]

Star Magazine [v 2 #3, July 1931] ed. R. de S. Horn (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 20¢, 128pp, pulp, cover by Duncan McMillan) [BK]

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