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  • With the advent of the all-fiction pulp magazines around the turn of the century, Davis soon became editor of Munsey's All-Storv Magazine.

    Robert H. Davis adamosf 2007

  • With the advent of the all-fiction pulp magazines around the turn of the century, Davis soon became editor of Munsey's All-Storv Magazine.

    Archive 2007-12-01 adamosf 2007

  • Adam Pachter, editor of Fenway Fiction, the first all-fiction anthology devoted to stories about the Boston Red Sox, is currently working on a sequel and would welcome submissions of short stories, play and novel excerpts, poems, etc.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Erika D. 2006

  • Adam Pachter, editor of Fenway Fiction, the first all-fiction anthology devoted to stories about the Boston Red Sox, is currently working on a sequel and would welcome submissions of short stories, play and novel excerpts, poems, etc.

    And More Baseball Writing Erika D. 2006

  • He was a man who, when not at the theatre, spent most of his time in bed, reading all-fiction magazines; but it so happened that once, last summer, he had actually seen the sky; and he considered that this entitled him to speak almost as a specialist on the subject.

    Jill the Reckless 1928

  • He writes a novelette, three short stories, and ten thousand words of a serial for one of the all-fiction magazines under different names every month.

    My Man Jeeves 1928

  • Even his claim to have invented the all-fiction magazine is open to caveat; there were probably plenty of such things, in substance if not in name, before the Argosy.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • (If it were an all-fiction magazine that I expect to sell this story to, I should say, "Mr. Durkee rejoiced in a fiancée.")

    Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

  • (Ainslee's Magazine, launched in 1898, was originally a general monthly magazine but adopted an all-fiction policy in 1902 and published many important authors — including Bret Harte, Anthony Hope, Stephen Crane, Jack London, O. Henry, and Albert Payson Terhune.

    “Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008

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