Stories of kites were brought to Europe by Marco Polo towards the end of the 13th century, and kites were brought back by sailors from Japan and Malaysia in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Stories of banshees were also prevalent in the West Highlands of Scotland.

* Ten-pagers, comedic Donald Duck stories that were the lead for the monthly flagship title Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, whose circulation peaked in the mid-1950s at 3 million copies sold a month.

She also filled a large number of magazine pages, particularly the long-running Sunny Stories which were immensely popular among younger children.

These were first published, for the most part, in Sunny Stories, an Enid Blyton magazine, or other children's papers.

At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Ackerman saw his first " imagi-movie " in 1922 ( One Glorious Day ), purchased his first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926, created The Boys ' Scientifiction Club in 1930 (" girl-fans were as rare as unicorn's horns in those days ").

A year later, due to Depression-era financial troubles, the two were merged into Wonder Stories, which Gernsback continued to publish until 1936, when it was sold to Thrilling Publications and renamed Thrilling Wonder Stories.

Stories by Hearst correspondents from around the world were sold to other newspapers, giving rise to the Hearst International News Service, which later became part of United Press International.

These were called " smashes " or " spoons ", and they were written about quite frankly in stories for girls aspiring to attend college in publications such as Ladies Home Journal, a children's magazine titled St. Nicholas, and a collection called Smith College Stories, without negative views.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

Among the best-known other titles of this period were Amazing Stories, Black Mask, Dime Detective, Flying Aces, Horror Stories, Love Story Magazine,

Many classic science fiction and crime novels were originally serialized in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask.

Stories abound of past champions who were considered invincible beings.

Revised versions of " Irish Countess " and " Schalken " were reprinted in Le Fanu's first collection of short stories, the very rare Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery ( 1851 ).

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

Gernsback started the modern genre of science fiction by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories, in 1926.

Bradbury's first paid piece, " Pendulum ," written with Henry Hasse, was published in the pulp magazine Super Science Stories in November 1941, for which he earned $ 15.

Both King's sons are published authors: Owen King published his first collection of stories, We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories, in 2005.

Stories with the device used by the Second Doctor before the screwdriver's first on-screen appearance are plausible as the Doctor in that story indicates that the machine " never fails ", implying its successful use before that adventure.

* " Strikebreaker " ( short story ), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories

During 1980, six years after Vangelis decided against joining Yes, he and Jon Anderson, the lead singer of Yes, released their first album together, Short Stories, under the band name of Jon & Vangelis.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

Not to be confused with the short story " The Naming of Names ", first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949, later published as " Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed ".

" At CBS, Just Plain Bill brought human insight and Anacin pain reliever into households ; Your Family and Mine came courtesy of Sealtest Dairy products ; Bachelor's Children first hawked Old Dutch Cleanser, then Wonder Bread ; Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories was sponsored by Spry Vegetable Shortening.

His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

Though primarily known as a novelist, Dreiser published his first collection of short stories, Free and Other Stories in 1918.

He also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, disc jockey, usher and dishwasher before selling his first story to Amazing Stories in 1950.

It was anthologised by Groff Conklin in The Best of Science Fiction, the first of Asimov's stories to have been reprinted, and was later included in The Early Asimov ( in 1972, along with a very brief history of its origins ), The Asimov Chronicles in 1989 and in volume 2 of The Complete Stories in 1992.

Clarke's portrayal of the Overlords as devils was influenced by John W. Campbell's depiction of the devilish Teff-Hellani species in The Mightiest Machine, first serialized in Astounding Stories in 1934.

Spider-Man ’ s hand opens a special Spidey Super Stories comic book in which the show ’ s logo is seen on the first open page.

Stories of the Yeti first emerged as a facet of Western popular culture in the 19th century.

The second cousin to be introduced was criminal scientist Portis ( Plottigat in the original Italian version ; English name first used in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 695, 2008 ).

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

The film begins with an overhead view of a man and woman picnicking in a park at the Chicago lakefront — a one-meter-square overhead image of the figures on a blanket surrounded by food and books they brought with them, one of them being The Voices of Time and Other Short Stories by J. G. Ballard.

Salinger's Nine Stories and The Catcher in the Rye to Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the perceived madness of the state of affairs in America was brought to the forefront of the nation's literary expression.

Davis brought in Dorothy McIlwraith ( 1891-1976 ), the editor of Short Stories, to assist Wright.

2006 brought the release of episodes from the second season, with two DVD releases: Flight to Cloud Castle and Other Stories and Quest of the Princess Ponies and Other Stories, as well as a DVD entitled Two Great Pony Tales with The Magic Coins and The Glass Princess available in eight episodes.

Their third album Barclay James Harvest and Other Short Stories was an even greater achievement, though Martyn Ford was brought in to supervise the orchestral work after Robert John Godfrey departed over writing issues behind " Mockingbird "-one of the group's most consistently popular tracks.

Lasting until 1929 the Contact Editions brought out books by Bryher ( Two Selves ), H. D .' s Palimpsest, Mina Loy's Lunar Baedecker, Ernest Hemingway's first book Three Stories & Ten Poems ( 1923 ), poems by Marsden Hartley, William Carlos Williams ( Spring and All, 1923 ), Emanuel Carnevali's only book during his lifetime ( The Hurried Man ), prose by Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein ( The Making of Americans, 1925 ), Mary Butts ( Ashe of Rings ), John Herrmann ( What Happens ), Edwin Lanham ( Sailors Don't Care ), Robert Coates ( The Eater of Darkness ), Texas schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and Saikaku Ihara's Quaint Tales of Samurais.

Fool for the City, his first manga, came out in 1985 but it was 1986 that brought The Five Star Stories, which is still in production today.

Michigan State University Press brought out her previously unpublished second novel, Between the Flowers, in 1999, and The Collected Short Stories of Harriette Simpson Arnow in 2005.