Thornton Leigh Hunt 1860s. Hunt was also editor of "The Spectator" from around 1859 to January 1861. James Buchanan was at that time President of the United States and was attempting to counter civil war over the issue of slavery, mostly by adopting a vacillatory position. Two Americans based in London - a businessman called John McHenry and an Assistant Secretary to ambassador George M. Dallas, called Benjamin Moran - determined to use the magazine as a counter to the generally anti-Buchanan position of the British press. Hunt had assisted Robert Stephen Rintoul at "The Spectator" and appears to have stayed on after
Tales of Magic and Mystery (magazine) Strange Stories", another short-lived magazine which Gibson edited the following year. Walter B. Gibson was the editor of all five issues of "Tales of Magic and Mystery", which remained in saddle-stapled pulp format throughout its run. It was priced at 25 cents, and each issue was 64 pages long. In 2004, Wildside Press released a facsimile edition of the February 1928 issue, and in 2013, Adventure House released a facsimile of the March 1928 issue. Tales of Magic and Mystery (magazine) Tales of Magic and Mystery was a pulp magazine which published five monthly issues from December 1927 to April