The Novel Magazine, No. 1, 1905.

The Novel Magazine was the first British all-fiction pulp magazine. It ran from 1905 to 1937 when it was absorbed into The Grand Magazine.[1]

From 1918 to 1922 The Novel Magazine was edited by the writer E. C. Vivian.[2]

Contributors of fiction to The Novel Magazine included Rafael Sabatini, [3] Agatha Christie, Elinor Glyn, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar Wallace, Sax Rohmer, Baroness Orczy and P. G. Wodehouse.[4] The Novel Magazine also published ghost stories and weird fiction by Barry Pain, A. M. Burrage, Elliott O'Donnell, and "Theo Douglas" (the pseudonym of H. D. Everett). [5]

References

  1. Ashley, Mike. (2005) The Age of the Story Tellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. London: British Library. ISBN 9780712306980
  2. Adrian,Jack, "Vivian, E(velyn) C(harles)", in the St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers, edited by David Pringle. Detroit, St. James Press, 1996. ISBN 9781558622050 (pp. 577–80).
  3. Adrian, Jack, and Cox, Michael, The Oxford Book of Historical Stories. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780192832085 (p. xiv)
  4. Glover, David & McCracken, Scott, The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012 ISBN 1107493854, (p.26)
  5. Adrian, Jack, "Introduction" to Burrage, A.M., The Occult Files of Francis Chard: Some Ghost Stories. Ashcroft, British Columbia, Ash-Tree Press, 1996 ISBN 978-1-899562-20-6
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