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Speculative Fiction Centre

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  2004 – 2008?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)


Speculative North

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 6 (as at Jan-2024)

"Speculative North is a Canadian magazine dedicated to the celebration, promotion, and enjoyment of speculative literature in its various forms. Our mission is to foster a community of diverse voices in speculative literature, to create an enduring virtual space for readers and writers, and to promote the growth and flourishing of the speculative literature community."

Issues & Index Sources:  May-2020 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any after #6, Dec-2021)
Website:   www.tdotspec.com/speculative-north-magazine
Publishers:   TDotSpec Inc.
Editors:   David F. Shultz
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Speculon

Country: US
Total Issues: 12

Amateur online magazine that turned semi-professional from issue #3.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-2000 – Apr-2002
Editors:   Timothy Cooper

The Specusphere

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 23

Amateur online magazine, relaunched from a continuous daily blogzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-2008 – Dec-2011/Jan-2012
Publishers:   The Specusphere, Browns Plains, Queensland, Australia
Editors:   Stephen Thompson

Speed Adventure Stories

see under Spicy-Adventure Stories

Speed Detective

see under Spicy Detective Stories

Speed Mystery

see under Spicy Mystery Stories

Speed & Power

Country: UK
Total Issues: 87+1=88

Include a "Christmas Special" in 1974.

Issues & Index Sources

  22-Mar-1974 – 22-Nov-1975: Story Paper Index

#incorporated into Look and Learn

Publishers

  IPC Magazines

Frequency

  weekly

Speed Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

The Aug/Sep-1931 issue was an unpublished "ashcan" issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1931/Sep-1931 – Feb/Mar-1932: Adventure Fiction Index
Publishers:   Headquarters Publishing (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Speed Western Stories

see under Spicy Western Stories

Spellbound [1993]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1993 – Summer 1994: Science Fiction Index
Publishers:   Spellbound; Douglasville, GA
Editors:   Cathy Shanks
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $6.00

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Spellbound [1999]

Country: US
Total Issues: 15+7=22

A fantasy magazine for kids ages 9 to 13.

Issues & Index Sources

  Fall 1999 – Spring 2003: Science Fiction Index
  Winter 2012 – Summer 2014: Science Fiction Index

Email Address:   spellbound@eggplant-productions.com

Publishers

  Eggplant Productions, PO Box 2248, Schiller Park, IL 60176

Editors

  Raechel Henderson and Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

Formats

  Fall 1999 – Spring 2003: octavo
  Winter 2012 – Summer 2014: ebook

Prices

  $5.00
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SPGA Showcase

Country: US
Total Issues: 1?

A publication of the Small Press Genre Association meant to get more exposure for their members, containing 11 short stories and 10 poems.

Issues & Index Sources:  1995
Publishers:   Small Press Genre Association, Concord, California
Editors:   David G. Barnett and Bobbi Sinha-Morey
Pagecounts:   10pp

The Sphere

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3343

Illustrated weekly that focused on news stories and society features, but also published occasional fiction such as the "F. T. Carrington, Inquiry Agent" series by J. Storer Clouston (24-Nov-1919 on).

Absorbed two other well-known weeklies, Black and White (1912) and The Graphic (1932); became a big slick by the 1920s.

Issues & Index Sources

  27-Jan-1900 – 27-Jan-1964: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Illustrated Newspapers

Editors

  1900 – 1926: Clement Shorter
  1926 – 1960: Jesse Heitner
  1960 – 1964: John Oliver

Frequency

  weekly

Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

  Online Books

The Sphinx

Country: US
Total Issues: 597

An "independent journal of the magical arts" that occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1902 – Mar-1953
Publishers:   William Hilliar; Dr. A. M. Wilson; John Mulholland
Editors:   William J. Hilliar; M. Inez; Dr. A. M. Wilson; John Mulholland
Related Sites:   Magicpedia

Spice

Country: US

Pinup magazine that published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1959 – 1967?: FictionMags Index (partial issue only)
Publishers:   Tri-S Publications Inc., 8032 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 46, CA.
Editors:   Curt Wilson
Prices:   50c
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The Spice Box

Country: US

Rebound issues of Snappy Stories and/or Live Stories. Subtitled "A Quarterly Magazine of `Telling Tales'".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1910s: FictionMags Index (partial issue only)
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Spick

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d


Spicy

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

A slender publication, featuring six to eight racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   R.S. Gray Publications, London
Pagecounts:   36pp

Spicy Adult Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Comic book reprinting the text and illustrations of "spicy" stories that originally appeared in the spicy pulps such as Stolen Sweets, Tattle Tales, and Snappy between 1930 and 1936

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1991 – Jun-1991: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Aircel (Malibu Graphics)
Editors:   Chris Ulm
Formats:   quarto newsprint
Prices:   $2.50
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   monthly
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