Famous Fantastic Mysteries

eminent Fantastic Mysteries was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine available from 1939 to 1953. The editor was Mary Gnaedinger. It was launched by the Munsey Company as a manner to reprint the countless science fiction and fantasy stories which had appeared over the preceding decades in Munsey magazines such as Argosy. From its essential issue, square September/October 1939, Famous Fantastic Mysteries was an instant success. minus than a day later, a companion magazine,Fantastic Novels, was launched.

often reprinted authors included George Allan England, A. Merritt, and Austin Hall; the artwork was and a chief explanation for the accomplishment of the magazine, with artists such as Virgil Finlay and Lawrence Stevens contributing around of their unsurpassed work. In delayed 1942, Popular Publications acquired the title from Munsey, and Famous Fantastic Mysteries stopped reprinting brief stories from the beforehand magazines. It uninterrupted to reprint longer works, plus titles by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and H. requirement Haggard. unique sharp fiction and began to appear, including Arthur C. Clarke's "Guardian Angel", which would in a while pro forma the original portion of his novel Childhood's End. In 1951, the publishers experimented sketchily with a large digest format, but returned briefly to the novel pulp layout. The magazine ceased journal in 1953, nearly at the finish of the pulp era.