Ghost Stories was an American pulp magazine that 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. The magazine was initially printed on slick paper, which was sufficiently good quality to allow photographs to be used.
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Ghost Stories was an American pulp magazine that 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 focused almost entirely on stories about ghosts, many of which were written by staff writers but presented under pseudonyms as true confessions. Initially successful, the magazine began to lose readers and in 1930 was sold to Harold Hersey. Hersey was unable to reverse the magazine’s decline, and publication of Ghost Stories ceased in early 1932. The magazine was initially printed on slick paper, which was sufficiently good quality to allow photographs to be used.
Many of the stories had accompanying photographs purporting to be of their protagonists. In 1931 the schedule slipped to bimonthly, and three issues later the magazine ceased publication. There are 64 issues, with six issues per volume, except for the last volume which had only four issues. The price was 25 cents throughout the end of its run with the exception of its last volume, which included four issues for 25 cents each. The final issue is dated December 1931January 1932. Ghost Stories was published by Bernarr Macfadden, under the imprint Constructive Publishing Co. of Dunellin, New Jersey, until the March 1930 issue.
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