Because of the vast number of magazines covered by this site (over 7000 at last count) and the varying degrees of interest that different magazines command, I have attempted to structure this part of the web site so that everyone (within reason) can get rapid access to the information they are looking for.

The magazine data itself is subdivided into four hierarchical levels providing more and more detail about fewer and fewer magazines. These levels are as follows:

• Top Level:This simply provides a single-page table of contents to the next level down to facilitate rapid access to a given magazine.
• Magazine Lists: These pages contain a single line for each magazine title, listing:
  • The magazine title. Note that an attempt has been made to group together all variant titles of a given magazine, with cross-references from each title to the main entry.
  • Details (as far as is known) of the range of issues for which the magazine was published.
  • Details of up to two magazine indexes that index some or all of the contents of the magazine in question.  The magazine indexes themselves are listed on a separate page (hyperlinked from the lists).
  • Notes on the coverage of the indexes, with particular emphasis on missing issues.
• Magazine Data: Each of the magazines in the magazine lists is hyperlinked to a page containing further details of the magazine. For a small number of magazines (such as Argosy and New Worlds) these pages are detailed discussions of the magazines in question, together with a checklist of all known issues.  For all the other magazines, the data pages simply contain the information from the Magazine Data List that I maintain on behalf of the FictionMags mailing list. In due course I would like to use the former format for all magazines but, at the current rate, this will take about another 200 years.
• Magazine Issue Checklists: A small number of magazines is also hyperlinked to a page containing a full checklist of all known issues of the magazines, illustrated, where possible, with thumbnail cover scans of each issue. A separate page lists the magazines for which checklists have been created.
• Magazine Images: The magazine data pages (and issue checklists) contain thumbnail cover scans of as many of the magazines as I have images for.  95% of these are also hyper-linked to larger versions of the same cover scans - typically limited to 400 pixels wide and about 60Kb in size, although this varies widely from magazine to magazine.

The first two levels also exist in a variety of formats.   Currently there are thirteen different sets:

• Genre Magazines:These are fundamentally the magazines I started out to list - all the key genre magazines and other pulp magazines in which genre authors are likely to have appeared.  It covers about 2000 magazines.
• Pulp Magazines: This is an attempt to list all pulp magazines (although the attribution is highly debatable in some cases).
• SF/Fantasy/Weird Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of SF, Fantasy, Horror, Ghost or Supernatural stories.
• Mystery Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of Mystery, Detective, Espionage and/or Gang stories.
• Western Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of Western stories and was primarily put together for, and with the assistance of, the members of the WesternPulps mailing list.
• Sports Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of Sports stories.
• Adventure Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of Adventure, War and/or Aviation stories.
• Love Story Magazines:This lists only those magazines that contain a high proportion of Love/Romance stories.
• Little Magazines:This lists only those magazines that are considered to be "little", "literary" or "regional" magazines.
• Men's Magazines:This lists only those magazines aimed primarily at a male audience, including the saucy/spicy titles from the 1920's & 1930's, the men's adventure magazines from the 1940;s & 1950's, and the more explicit magazines of more recent decades.
• Fiction Magazines:This set includes all the magazines, excluding story papers, in the list (currently about 4000) and is primarily of interest to the enthusiasts on the FictionMags mailing list.
• Story Papers:This set includes all the story papers and/or libraries in the list and is based mainly on the research done by Steve Holland.
• All Magazines:This set includes both the magazines and the story papers and everything else in the list.

In a number of cases I've had to guess at the contents of a magazine I did not recognise so there could well be some errors in attribution - please feel free to let me know of any mistakes I have made.

While the magazine images are primarily intended to illustrate the magazine data pages, it seems a shame to waste such a large collection of cover scans so there is also a separate image gallery in a set of linked pages starting here, from which you can just browse all the cover images for a given magazine (except those displayed in the magazine checklists) should you choose to do so. Note that some of these pages are very large and will take some time to load and render.

Similarly, I felt it might be a useful resource to pull together all those magazines that are still being published (for any budding, or actual, authors among you) and there is a separate page listing all of these, together with website/e-mail links (where known). As few magazines formally announce their termination, I have used a rule of thumb here and elsewhere that a magazine that has not published an issue for at least 2 years should be considered defunct. Some such magazines do revive, and will be reinstated as soon as they do, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

There is also a separate page that summarises all the pulp/genre magazines that have, so far, not been indexed (and for which indexes are not in progress), as well as identifying the missing issues where an existing index is incomplete. Your assistance in filling in these gaps would be most welcome!