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Criterion Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 21

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1894 – Jan-1896: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith, 31 Rose St., New York
Prices:   50c
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Critic

Country: US

Initially the book review section was the outstanding feature; in addition departments of drama, fine arts, news notices, literature and poetry were well written and edited. Putnam's purchased the weekly in 1898 turning it into a monthly. The book review section was shortened; illustrations were added; articles and poetry increased.

Issues & Index Sources

15-Jan-1881 – 5-Jan-1884:

Index to Periodical Literature

12-Jan-1884 – 28-Jun-1884, as The Critic & Good Literature

5-Jul-1884 – Sep-1906, as The Critic:

Index to Periodical Literature

#becomes Putnam's Monthly

Publishers

The Critic Printing and Publishing Company, New York

Frequency

  15-Jan-1881 – 5-Jan-1884: biweekly
  12-Jan-1884 – 25-Jun-1898: weekly
  Jul-1898 – Sep-1906: monthly

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Online Books

Critical Mass Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1988 – Fall 1989:

Science Fiction Index



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The Critical Quarterly

Country: UK

Literary journal, mainly of criticism, but went through a fiction-publishing phase in the 1980s.

Issues & Index Sources: 1959 – ?:

Short Story Index

(Missing: all before 1974 at least)

Editors:   C.B. Cox & E.A. Dyson, Colin MacCabe
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 4

The Critical Review

Country: UK

Contributors include Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith.

Issues & Index Sources: 1756 – 1790

Editors: Tobias Smollett
Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 1 (which says - 1817)

The Cromcast Chronicle

Country: US
Total Issues: 3 (as at Jan-2024)

"A zine featuring fiction & scholarship of the savage, the weird, & the macabre!"

Issues & Index Sources: #1, Winter 2020 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #3, Winter 2022)

Website:   thecromcast.blogspot.com
Publishers:   Three Professors Press
Editors:   Joshua K. Adkins, Luke E. Dodd, & Jonathan Larson


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Cromlech

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Fanzine about Robert E. Howard, featuring some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1985 – 1988:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Cromlech
Editors:   Marc A. Cerasini
Formats:   pamphlet


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Crosscurrent

Country: New Zealand

Formed by merger of Rimu and Pacific Quarterly Moana.

Issues & Index Sources: 1986 – 1989

Publishers: Outrigger Publishers Ltd., Hamilton, New Zealand
Frequency: quarterly

Crosscurrents

Country: US

Emphasis on short fiction. Publishes up to 60 per year. Has published Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike. Circulation 3,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 1980 – 1994

Publishers:   Crosscurrents, Westlake Village, CA
Editors:   Linda Brown Michelson
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   176pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Crossed Genres Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 36+36=72

Online SF magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-2008 – Dec-2011:

Science Fiction Index

Jan-2013 – Dec-2015:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

Crossed Genres Publications, 330 Cochituate Rd #1433, Framingham, MA 01701

Editors

Bart R. Leib and Kay Holt (Dec-2008 - Nov-2010); Jaym Gates and Natania Barron (Dec-2010 - present)



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Cross Plains

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Fanzine about Robert E. Howard.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1974 – Sep-1975:

Science Fiction Index



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Crossroads

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1992 – Oct-1999:

Science Fiction Index

Website: www.johneverson.com/crossroads/

Publishers

  Mar-1992 – Feb-1995: Pat Nielsen, Jacksonville, FL
  Jun-1995 – Feb-1997: Pat Nielsen, Jacksonville, NC
  Jun-1997 – Oct-1999: Pat Nielsen, Beulaville, NC

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Crossworlds Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

A comic book size magazine, with one graphic piece and six prose short stories, whose goal is to help "rediscover our sense of wonder, and challenge our deepest fears; we can explore the mysteries of the universe through ideas: and more importantly, we can learn more about ourselves".

Issues & Index Sources: v1 #1, 1994:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Synergy Studio, Walnut, CA
Editors: Mark W. Miller


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Croton Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 11

Published stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle and Carol Emshwiller, among others.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1978 – Spring/Summer 1988

Publishers:   Croton Council on the Arts, PO Box 277, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
Editors:   Ruth Lisa Schechter
Frequency:   Annual

Crowded Magazine

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 2?

A tri-annual pro-paying speculative fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-2013 – Sep-2013?:

Science Fiction Index

Editors: Baden Chant & Ethan Fode
Frequency: tri-annual


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Crown Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 125

Issues & Index Sources:  21-Feb-1898 – 15-Jul-1898: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete after #86)

Publishers:   George Munro's Sons, 17 to 27 Vandewater St., New York
Formats:   7½ x 5¼"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   300 to 400pp
Frequency:   Daily
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography