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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