Subtitled "Short Stories by Australian Writers", Storyteller was a quarterly magazine committed to promoting Australian writers and writings.

Canada's premier short-story magazine. Fiction still relatively minor.

Initially all stories in the magazine were submitted as "contest entries" with ú25 being paid for the prizewinning story and ú5 for each other story, and was called Storyteller Contest. At some point the title on the covr at least changed to Storyteller and in 1964 the magazine title changed to International Storyteller, although the stories were still mainly by newcomers from the UK.

Contained a story by Angela Carter in July 1962, and published an all-SF "omnibus" in 1964, although it is unclear whether this was an issue of the magazine or a separate anthology.

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Online general fiction magazine.

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Publishers:   Storytellers' Co., New York, NY
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

Contains "Short stories, serials, instructional & original features for children."

Listed in DinWest, but not located.

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Publishers:   Photodramatist Publishing Co., Inc., 6411 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Editors:   Hubert La Due

Subtitled "Tales of Fantasy to Escape With", this fanzine claimed to contain "the most thrilling stories by amateur writers" but only lasted a single issue.

The leading UK popular fiction magazine, a major trendsetter at the turn of the last century and still a well-known name in the present.

It published most of the famous writers of its day, in particular A. Conan Doyle (the "Sherlock Holmes" short stories, which set the fashion for series stories), W.W. Jacobs, H.G. Wells, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, A.E.W. Mason, Anthony Hope, O. Henry, P.G. Wodehouse, Gilbert Frankau, Agatha Christie, Sapper, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy L. Sayers.

See also under The New Strand.

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A number of issues of The Strand Magazine have been seen which are identical to the UK issues except that they are dated one month later and have prices on the cover for Australia, New Zealand and/or South Africa. These are believed to be a "Colonial Edition", printed locally and dated to allow for the delay caused by shipping the printing plates.

American reprint edition of The Strand Magazine. The American edition initially carried the same material as the British edition, but (typically) one month later; but as time went by there were numerous items carried in one edition but not the other.

A second revival of the original Strand, this one concentrates on mystery and supernatural fiction.

The bulk of each issue (typically everything after the first 16 or 20 pages) consisted of sheet music for songs of the day, but almost every issue contained one short story often written (and illustrated) by regular contributors to The Strand Magazine.

Each issue contained a single complete original novelette, illustrated with three engravings.

Strange was sub-titled the magazine of true mystery. It was intended to publish non-fiction articles dealing with bizarre and unsolved mysteries. Topics covered included The Mary Celeste, feral children, death camps, cursed diamonds, dreams, swindles and so on. It lasted for three issues; March 1952(#1), May 1952(#2), July 1952(#3). The contents for the first issue were fairly typical.