Uncanny Stories (magazine)

Uncanny Stories was a pulp magazine which published a single issue, dated April 1941.

The Goodmans' magazines included several "weird-menace" pulps—a genre known for incorporating sex and sadism, with story lines that placed women in danger, usually because of a threat that appeared to be supernatural but was ultimately revealed to be the work of a human villain.

The influence of the "sex and sadism" side of the Goodman's portfolio of magazines was apparent in Marvel Science Stories: it was not strictly a weird-menace pulp, but authors were sometimes asked to add more sex to their stories than was usual in the science fiction field at the time.

Ashley speculates that the only reason the magazine was issued was to use up some remaining material that had been acquired for Marvel Science Stories,[4] perhaps because at this time the Goodmans were beginning to focus much more on the growing comic-book market.

[3] Interior illustrators included Jack Kirby and Alex Schomburg.