The magazine's practitioners in this sub-genre included J.D. Newsom (with humorous stories about Legionnaires Mike Curialo and Albert Withers), Georges Surdez, Robert Carse and Bob Du Soe. Some of the serials published in "Short Stories" were later published in hardback by Doubleday. These included "Jimmie Dale and the Blue Envelope Murder", by Frank L. Packard. The magazine adopted the symbol of a red sun on its covers; nearly all the issues of the pulp-era "Short Stories" featured a red sun as part of its cover illustration. Circulation for "Short Stories" rose to 174,899 copies in 1922. In addition to fiction, Maule also created "The Story Teller's Circle", a forum for readers to write in and discuss issues (similar to "The Camp-Fire" department in "Adventure" magazine). Edgar Franklin Wittmack, Remington Schuyler and Nick Eggenhofer all painted several covers for "Short Stories". Maule edited the magazine for almost two decades. Between 1929 and 1932 Roy De S. Horn served as editor; Maule returned as editor in 1932. During his tenure, De Horn created "Adventurers All", a column where writers and readers of "Short Stories" related true-life adventures they had experienced. In 1936, Maule was succeeded in the role of editor by Dorothy McIlwraith. The next year, Doubleday sold the publication to a new owner, Short Stories, Inc. (McIlwraith would also edit "Weird Tales" when Short Stories, Inc. purchased that magazine). During the 1940s, writers such as Frank Gruber, Arthur O. Friel, Theodore Roscoe and Carl Jacobi appeared in "Short Stories". A British edition of "Short Stories" was published between 1920 and 1959; it merged with the UK version of the "West" magazine in 1954 and was known as "Short Stories Incorporating West". The September 1950 issue of "Short Stories" carried Robert A. Heinlein's story "Destination Moon", an adaptation of the film. This was unusual as "Short Stories" rarely published science fiction. Like other pulps, the advent of World War Two, and the arrival of paperbacks and television had a negative effect on "Short Stories"; circulation figures plummeted and by the 1950s the magazine was dominated by reprints. Despite the efforts of new editor M.D. Gregory and his associate editor, Frank Belknap Long, "Short Stories" ceased publication in 1959.