Fiction magazines

British monthly magazine published 1891 to 1950

Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines, its title another word for screenplay. It was founded in Chicago in 1911. Under early editors Julian Johnson and James R. Quirk, in style and reach it became a pacesetter for fan magazines. In 1921, Photoplay established what is considered the first significant annual movie award. For most of its run, it was published by Macfadden Publications. The magazine ceased publication in 1980.

monthly literary magazine

Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books and Newspapers of the World, more commonly known as Tit-Bits and later as Titbits, was a British weekly magazine founded by George Newnes, a founding figure in popular journalism, on 22 October 1881.