Horror Magazines

List of Horror Magazines through the 1970s. There are some category edge cases with Mystery, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. I mostly skipped foreign reprints, which sometimes have original material.


1802 The Marvellous Magazine and Compendium of Prodigies
1899 The Boys' Monster Weekly - Monster possibly referring to the size, one of the two covers I've seen refers to Spring Heeled Jack, so who knows.
1905 All-Story Magazine - some horror
1919 The Thrill Book - some horror
1922 Midnight Mystery Stories - included other features
1923 Hutchinson's Mystery-Story Magazine
1923 Weird Tales

1926 Ghost Stories
1927 Crime Mysteries - horror oriented crime
1927 Tales of Magic and Mystery
1929 Detective Trails - weird mystery
1929 True Strange Stories

1931 Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror
1932 Dime Mystery - weird menace
1933 Master Thriller - reprints, including some horror
1934 Spicy Detective Stories
1934 Spicy Mystery Stories
1934 Terror Tales - weird menace
1935 Horror Stories - weird menace
1935 Spicy Adventure Stories - some were dark enough to be horror adjacent
1935 Thrilling Mysteries - weird menace one-shot
1935 Thrilling Mystery - weird menace
1936 Ace Mystery - weird menace
1936 The Witch's Tales - Radio tie-in
1937 Eerie Stories one-shot
1937 Fireside Ghost Stories - one-shot
1937 Strange Detective Mysteries
1938 Eerie Mysteries
1938 Ghosts and Goblins - one-shot
1938 Mystery Tales - weird menace
1939 Marvel Tales - weird menace
1939 Strange Stories
1939 Uncanny Tales (USA)
1940 Sinister Stories
1940 Uncanny Tales (Canada)
1940 Weird Story Magazine
1941 All Star Detective - weird menace
1941 Eerie Tales - one-shot
1942 Four Star Mystery - one-shot, not sure of exact subgenre
1944 Horror Crime Cases - true crime one-shot
1945 Creep, Shadow - fanzine, reprints
1946 Strange Tales
1948 Four in One Weird and Occult Shorts - one shot, four unsold pulps stitched together under this cover, contents varied for each sold
1948 Horror Stories - UK reprints
1948 Shock
1949 Black Skull Magazine
1949 Book of Terror one shot
1950 Gargoyle - one-shot fanzine
1950 Gripping Terror - one-shot
1952 The Mysterious Traveler - radio tie-in
1955 Weird World
1957 Screen Chills and Macabre Stories
1957 Tales of the Frightened
1958 Monster Parade
1959 Monsters and Things
1959 Shock Tales / Suspense Tales
1960 A Book of Weird Tales - reprint one shot
1960 Fear!
1960 Shock
1960 Shock Mystery Tales
1962 Web Terror Stories
1962 Werewolves and Vampires - film mag with fiction
1963 Haunted - fanzine
1963 Magazine of Horror - reprints
1963 Prize Ghost Stories - Ghost Story reprints one shot
1963 True Twilight Tales - Ghost Story reprints
1965 Bizarre Mystery Magazine
1965 Gothique - fanzine
1966 Chilling Monster Tales - one shot with one reprint
1966 Giallar - fanzine
1966 Startling Mystery Stories
1969 Coven 13
1969 Weird Terror Tales
1970 Adventures in Horror / Horror Stories - horror porn
1970 Bizarre Fantasy Tales - reprints
1970 Gothic Romances
1971 Dark Horizons
1971 Gothic Secrets
1972 From Beyond the Dark Gateway - fanzine
1972 Horrible Stories - fanzine one-shot
1972 Horror Sex Tales - one-shot monster porn
1972 Monster Sex Tales - monster porn
1972 World of Horror - fanzine with some fiction
1973 Cthulhu Calls - fanzine with fiction
1973 Dark Fantasy
1973 Haunt of Horror - two prose digests, followed by comics with a prose story
1973 The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror
1975 Gothic Tales of Love Magazine
1975 New Witchcraft
1976 Cthulhu: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
1976 Dark Phantasms - fanzine one-shot
1976 Eerie Country
1976 Ghoul - humor one-shot
1977 Fantasy Tales
1977 Incredible Adventures - pulp reprints
1978 Dreams of a Dark Hue - fanzine one-shot
1978 Eldritch Tales - fanzine
1979 Ghosts & Scholars
1979 Gothic - fanzine
1980 Fantasy Macabre - fanzine
1981 Chillers - movie mag with fiction
1981 Crypt of Cthulhu
1981 Twilight Zone Magazine