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Ghost Stories (magazine)
''Ghost Stories'' was a pulp magazine which published 64 issues between 1926 and 1932. It was one of the earliest competitors to ''Weird Tales'', the first magazine to specialize in the fantasy and occult fiction genre. It was a companion magazine to ''True Story'' and ''True Detective Stories'', and focused almost entirely on stories about ghosts, with many of the stories written by staff writers but presented under pseudonyms in a "true confession" style. These were often accompanied by faked photographs to make the stories appear more believable. ''Ghost Stories'' also ran original and reprinted contributions, including works by Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, and Frank Belknap Long. Among the reprints were Agatha Christie's "The Last Seance" (under the title "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost"), several stories by H.G. Wells, and Charles Dickens' "The Signalman". The magazine was initially successful, but began to lose readers, and in 1930 was sold to Harold Hersey. Hersey was unable to reverse the magazine's decline, and ''Ghost Stories'' ceased publication at the start of 1932.
== Publishing history and contents ==
Fantasy and occult fiction had often appeared in popular magazines prior to the twentieth century, but the first magazine to specialize in the genre, ''Weird Tales'', did not appear until 1923.〔Weinberg (1985), pp. 626−628.〕 ''Ghost Stories'', which was launched in July 1926, was one of ''Weird Tales earliest competitors.〔 The publisher, Bernarr Macfadden, also published true confession magazines such as ''True Story''; ''Ghost Stories'' followed this format, with the contents mostly written by the publisher's staff writers, and attributed in print to a first-person narrator. The magazine was initially printed on slick paper, which was sufficiently good quality to allow photographs to be used, and many of the stories had accompanied photographs purporting to be of their protagonists. These were replaced by line drawings when the magazine switched to a pulp layout in July 1928. ''Ghost Stories'' did occasionally print contributions from outside writers, including "The Apparition in the Prize Ring", by Robert E. Howard, under the pseudonym "John Taverel". Frank Belknap Long, Hugh B. Cave, Victor Rousseau, Stuart Palmer, and Robert W. Sneddon all sold stories to ''Ghost Stories'', and Carl Jacobi's first published story, "The Haunted Ring", appeared in the final issue, though this was not his first sale—"Mive", which he had sold to ''Weird Tales'', did not appear in print until the following month.〔Ashley (1997), p. 406.〕〔Ashley (1985), pp. 315–317.〕
In addition to original material, ''Ghost Stories'' included a substantial number of reprints, including well-known Victorian ghost stories such as "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens, and "The Open Door" by Mrs. Oliphant. Agatha Christie's "The Last Seance" appeared in the November 1926 issue, under the title "The Woman Who Stole a Ghost", and six stories by H.G. Wells were reprinted, including both ghost stories such as "The Red Room" and stories with less obvious appeal to ''Ghost Stories''' readership, such as "Pollock and the Porroh Man". Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Captain of the Polestar" appeared in the April 1931 issue, and he also contributed a non-fiction piece, "Houdini's Last Escape", which appeared in March 1930.〔 An arrangement was set up by Macfadden with Walter Hutchinson, a U.K. publisher, to exchange suitable material with ''The Sovereign Magazine'' and ''Mystery-Story Magazine'', two of Hutchinson's U.K. genre pulps, and many stories appeared on both sides of the Atlantic as a result.〔
The magazine was initially fairly successful, but sales soon began to fall. In March 1930 Harold Hersey bought the magazine from Macfadden and took over as editor, but he was unable to revive the magazine's fortunes.〔〔Hersey (1937), p. 190.〕 In 1931 the schedule slipped to bimonthly, and three issues later the magazine ceased publication, probably because readers grew bored: the limited scope meant that the contents of the magazine eventually became predictable. The final issue was dated December 1931/January 1932.〔
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