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Vol 8. No 2 (Nov. 1891). Galactic Central Publications (www.philsp.com)
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Alternative title: Short Stories with Keith’s House Plans
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Issue Details: First known date: 1890... 1890 Short Stories
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One of the most important and most successful American pulp magazines, Short Stories ran for almost 70 years with a total output of 1114 issues. During that time it was published by six different publishers. These were:

  • The Current Literature Publishing Company (1890-1904)
  • The Short Stories Company, Ltd. (1904-1910)
  • Doubleday (1910-1937)
  • Short Stories, Inc. (1937-1954)
  • Codel Publishing Company (1956-1957)
  • American Short Stories Corporation (1957-1959)

For the last six years the magazine shrank to a digest format before being expand briefly, to a slick men's magazine - initially as Short Stories: A Man's Magazine (1957-1958) and finally as Short Stories for Men (1959).

Between Volume 82 Number 4 (October 1914) and Volume 84 Number 1 (July 1915) the magazine was known as Short Stories with Keith’s House Plans. During this period it included a 16-page section of house plans by Walter J. Keith. Although the final number retained the title there was no "Keith's House Plans" section included.

[Source: Galactic Central]

Notes

  • A British reprint edition was published between 1920 and 1955, and then briefly revived in 1958 and 1959. A Canadian reprint also edition appeared during the 1930s and 1940s.

    An Australian reprint edition may have been published by Sydney-based printer/publisher Magazine Enterprises in the mid to late-1950s.

  • The Galactic Central website records that a major error in the magazine's whole numbering occurred in 1948 when the 25 December issue jumped from 1029 (10 December issue) to 1930 - an increase of 900. This mistake was never corrected. The correct number of issues, as noted above, was 1114.

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