A newspaper format publication issued on a weekly basis with each issue containing a complete novel. These were usually reprints of novels that had originally as hard-cover books, though occasionally a novel appearing in Week End Novels was the first UK appearance.

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Oct-1912 – 6-Mar-1915

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Frequency:   weekly

Issues & Index Sources:  1882

Publishers:   Donnelly, Lloyd & Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

See Waite The Quest for Bloods p.103.

"Serial stories of 40,000 - 60,000 words, with strong plot and love interest".

Issues & Index Sources:  1857 – 1862

Publishers:   Ballou
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1872 – 1880

Publishers:   Pictorial Printing
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

A news digest for country districts which published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Springfield Publishing Co., 57 Hillman St., Springfield, Mass.
Prices:   10c
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Carried 7 or 8 short stories each issue with short serials. Noted for "Sanders of the River" stories by Edgar Wallace; usually carried a weird story each issue along with more general light-hearted stuff. Authors include A.M. Burrage, Alice & Claude Askew, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Douglas Newton, M.P. Shiel.

Probably a weekly supplement of The Sheffield Telegraph and sometimes referred to as the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph. Carried a considerable amount of fiction.

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Issues & Index Sources:  1893 – 1991:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Unity School of Christianity, 917 Tracy, Kansas City 6, MO
Editors:   Myrtle Fillmore (in 1893); Jane Palmer (in 1948)
Formats:   10" x 7.25" (in 1948)
Prices:   15c (in 1948)
Pagecounts:   34pp (in 1948)
Frequency:   monthly

Fanzine.

Mixture of reprints from Columbia magazines and old material.