Lesser-Known Magazines That Published Horror and Weird.

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Many non-genre specific Magazines and Journals and Papers published work by Horror, Ghost and Weird writers in the heyday of the printed word in the last century.
In this thread we will name some of them and mention what can be found in their pages and where to find copies online if available.

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First we have Reedy's Mirror.




(Mentioned in the thread Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf - Crawling Horror:  vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/7549/daisy-butcher-janette-crawling-horror)


St. Louis, Missouri literary journal.

1891-1944

Known as "The Mid-West Weekly".

First published on February, 25 1891 under the title of the Sunday Mirror, it went through several title changes dowen the years.

William Marion Reedy, from whom the magazine would later take its name, became editor on December 1896.

Contributors included: Albert Bloch, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, Harris Merton Lyon, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Carl Sandburg.


The Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf - Crawling Horror book contains: 

Algernon Blackwood - An Egyptian Hornet: (Reedy's Mirror, 19 March 1915). A famous reviewer says:  'Rev. James Milligan plays unholy bathroom trick on a despised fellow guest at a desert hotel. Clue in title. Slight, but great line. "All men, except those very big men who are supermen, have something astonishingly despicable in them."'


Here are some of the Covers:

cdm17210.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17210coll6


Here is an interesting article from it about Sherlock Holmes, written by  Vincent Starrett. According to the blog below it contains 'Starrett’s first sustained bit of Sherlockian discourse: “In Praise of Sherlock Holmes.” Anyone familiar with his 1933 book, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, will recognize this as an early version of one of that book’s chapters.'

More Details and Text here:

www.vincentstarrett.com/blog/2016/10/16/in-the-beginning-there-was-reedys-mirror


Here are 248 Issues:

archive.org/search.php?query=Reedy%27s%20Mirror.


Books:

Max J. Puzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1998

Available here:

archive.org/details/maninthemirrorwi006739mbp/mode/2up

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Here is a book by William Marion Reedy, with a splendid title:

The Law Of Love: Being Fantasies Of Science And Sentiment Inked Into English To Cheer Up The Gloomsters (1905)

Found here:

archive.org/details/lawoflovebeingfa00reed/page/n5/mode/2up

[ripper]

In the 70s and 80s my late mum used to get Woman's Own every week, then swap it for Woman which was bought by her sister. I can't recall any specifics but there were occasional ghost/supernatural stories included. Also, Titbits and Weekend would publish ahem true accounts.

[ramseycampbell]

As I recall, The Writer - a thin 1950s digest-style journal, more like a pamphlet - published a few. One tale haunted me, and I still recall the climax, where the hall of (I think) a doctor's surgery fills with fog that proves to contain an unpleasant patient, dead but still on the move.

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Jul 23, 2021 10:52:09 GMT ramseycampbell said:

As I recall, The Writer - a thin 1950s digest-style journal, more like a pamphlet - published a few. One tale haunted me, and I still recall the climax, where the hall of (I think) a doctor's surgery fills with fog that proves to contain an unpleasant patient, dead but still on the move.

Is that the magazine still going today?

Edited to say the one I'm thinking of is an American magazine, first published in 1887. It's main purpose is to supply help for writers.
Maybe there was a UK one with the title? I can't see anything at moment, but I'm not near computer.

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The Train: A First-Class Magazine.

Groombridge and Sons, London. 1856-1858

Edited by Edmund Yates.

Monthly magazine. After Yates had failed in his previous venture the Comic Times, he tried again with this.

The Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf - Crawling Horror book contains:

A. G. Gray jnr. - The Blue Beetle: A Confession: (The Train: A First Class Magazine, Jan. 1857). A famous reviewer says: "A death tick beetle falls into a liquid solution prepared by a would-be Victor Frankenstein, promptly embarks on a killing spree from London to the wilds of Northumberland. Taking inspiration from Mary Shelley's tragic monster, the scarabaeus selects its victims from those dearest to the now suicidally repentant alchemist. Had never heard of this story before. I am so happy to have had opportunity to read it!"

It's main claim to fame is for the first published use of C.L. Dodgson's pseudonym Lewis Carroll, with a poem Solitude (March 1856)

The name was chosen by Yates from a shortlist of four supplied by Dodgson.

Some examples, including Solitude:


www.pbfa.org/books/the-train-a-first-class-magazine

dndgalleries.com/dodgson-charles-lutwidge-carroll-lewis-the-train-a-first-class-magazine-volume-one-number-one-the-first-appearance-of-lewis-carroll-1856/

[jamesdoig]

Interesting one edited by Roger Elwood that lasted three issues in 1981 - mix of fiction and articles on films etc:

[andydecker]

Interesting one, James.

Have to confess that I never saw The Most Dazzling Horror Film of the Year aka Fear no Evil. I looked it up and at first confused it with The Sentinel. And Blood Beach was a bore, despite Burt Young and John Saxon.

The editor is of interest. Roger Elwood, editor of many anthologies.

[helrunar]

Nice covers. That's cool that they interviewed John Newland, host of One Step Beyond as well as a short-lived 70s follow-up, Next Step Beyond--but also a good director of several television episodes and films, including the cult classic Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973). 

I really need to catch up with The Wolfen as it does seem like something I would enjoy. A lot of what's on offer in those mags encapsulates for me why I find so much 1980s horror boring and/or repellent, though.

Thanks for these scans!

Hel.