Dime Mystery Magazine 

was an American pulp magazine published from 1932 to 1950

by Popular Publications. Titled Dime Mystery Book Magazine during its first nine months, it
contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-length novel in each issue, but it was
competing with Detective Novels Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines
from a rival publisher, and failed to sell well. With the October 1933 issue the editorial policy
changed, and it began publishing horror stories. Under the new policy, each story's protagonist
had to struggle against something that appeared to be supernatural, but would be revealed to
have an everyday explanation. The new genre became known as "weird menace" fiction; the
publisher, Harry Steeger, was inspired to create the new policy by the gory dramatizations he
had seen at the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. Stories based on supernatural events were
rare in Dime Mystery, but did occasionally appear. Dime Mystery Magazine was an
American pulp magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications. Titled Dime
Mystery Book Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories,
including a full-length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels
Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a rival publisher, and failed
to sell well. With the October 1933 issue the editorial policy changed, and it began
publishing horror stories. Under the new policy, each story's protagonist had to struggle against
something that appeared to be supernatural, but would be revealed to have an everyday
explanation. The new genre became known as "weird menace" fiction; the publisher, Harry
Steeger, was inspired to create the new policy by the gory dramatizations he had seen at
the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. Stories based on supernatural events were rare in Dime
Mystery, but did occasionally appear. Dime Mystery Magazine was an American pulp
magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications. Titled Dime Mystery Book
Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-
length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels
Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a rival publisher, and failed
to sell well. With the October 1933 issue the editorial policy changed, and it began
publishing horror stories. Under the new policy, each story's protagonist had to struggle against
something that appeared to be supernatural, but would be revealed to have an everyday
explanation. The new genre became known as "weird menace" fiction; the publisher, Harry
Steeger, was inspired to create the new policy by the gory dramatizations he had seen at
the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. Stories based on supernatural events were rare in Dime
Mystery, but did occasionally appear. Dime Mystery Magazine was an American pulp
magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications. Titled Dime Mystery Book
Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-
length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels
Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a rival publisher, and failed
to sell well. With the October 1933 issue the editorial policy changed, and it began
publishing horror stories. Under the new policy, each story's protagonist had to struggle against
something that appeared to be supernatural, but would be revealed to have an everyday
explanation. The new genre became known as "weird menace" fiction; the publisher, Harry
Steeger, was inspired to create the new policy by the gory dramatizations he had seen at
the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. Stories based on supernatural events were rare in Dime
Mystery, but did occasionally appear. Dime Mystery Magazine was an American pulp
magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications. Titled Dime Mystery Book
Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-
length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels
Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a rival publisher, and failed
to sell well. With the October 1933 issue the editorial policy changed, and it began
publishing horror stories. Under the new policy, each story's protagonist had to struggle against
something that appeared to be supernatural, but would be revealed to have an everyday
explanation. The new genre became known as "weird menace" fiction; the publisher, Harry
Steeger, was inspired to create the new policy by the gory dramatizations he had seen at
the Grand Guignol theater in Paris. Stories based on supernatural events were rare in Dime
Mystery, but did occasionally appear.