Calabash

Duration: March 1982 to September 1983, four issues, two years
Frequency: Bi-annually
Editor: G. R. Skornickel

Sometimes in the world of Sherlockian publishing, those who aim the highest are the ones who fall the quickest, and Calabash: A Magazine for Holmesians was certainly aiming high when it first came out in 1982. First, it brazenly declared itself a magazine and published at a size about that of Time or Newsweek. Sure, it was all typewriter-typeset at line-and-a-half spacing, but the first issue featured writing by Isaac Asimov, A. E. Rodin, Dorothy Shaw, and Bruce Kennedy, among others, which was a pretty good start. One issue every six months may not have been enough to excite a regular readership when quarterlies were the standard in the Sherlockian world back then. But Calabash at least deserves an honorable mention for making the attempt.

-- BAK