We have more than a dozen titles of romance and love story magazines, with hundreds of issues and thousands of novelettes and short stories. Most are vintage – early-to-mid 20th century. Try reading what your grandmother read.
Check our selection of free romance audiobooks, with short stories.
Table of contents
Romance and Love Story Magazines
Love Short Stories
1943-1951
Chicago: Popular Publications
A selection of stories plus regular feature articles.
Miscellaneous Romance Magazines
1919-1974
Various publishers.
More than 200 magazines. Some titles: New Love, Ten-Story Love, Modern Romances, True Romances, Love Story, True Confessions, Ranch Romances, Gothic Tales of Love, North West Romances.
World’s Greatest Love Stories
1987-1989
NJ: Digest Publishing
A bi-monthly digest publication featuring five great romances in every issue. ..each a complete story.
Breezy Stories
1922-1941
NY: C. H. Young Publishing Corp.
Short stories and novelettes, and an astrology column.
Teenage Love Stories
1967-1968
London, UK: Warren Publishing
Cartoons, stories, advice columns and more.
True Confessions
1922-1951
Kentucky: Fawcett Publications
Several ‘true love romances’ plus several departments.
Modern Romances
1937-1951
NJ: Dell Publishing
“Every story true.” About eight true stories and about 8 special features.
True Story
1922-1952
NY: MacFadden
Two novelettes, 8 true stories, several special features, a few beauty and fashion articles, and a few homemaker articles.
Rangeland Romances
1940-1949
Chicago: Popular Publications
Novelettes, short stories, features and departments.
Calling All Girls
1944-1960
NY: Calling All Girls
Lots of articles, but less than half appear to be romance stories. Also advice, features, etc.
North-West Romances
1938-1950
NY: Glen-Kel Publishing
Novelettes and short stories about Alaska and the Northwest Territories.
Audiobooks – Romance Novels and Short Stories
These links to audiobook searches of romances and love stories lead to public domain recordings from the LibriVox.org collection at Internet Archive. The audiobooks, recorded by Librivox volunteers, were nearly all published before 1930. Recordings include romance short stories, seduction novels, courtship romances, erotica, and classic romantic novels.
All Librivox audiobooks are in the public domain. They can be freely streamed online or downloaded for offline listening.
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