Upend a penned index

Certainly there are indexes/indices for fiction and for magazines. Different again to index.php and to the index at the back of that volume on diacritical hermeneutics, this is library indexing and can be used on journals and broadsheets, films and television.

Journals attract the kind of index that calibrates for quality and relevance rather than one that takes a simple fan or collector's delight at compiling lists of old magazines.
There are both newspaper archives and a specific index that will take you to articles of interest.
Tertiary institutions continue to do a sound job; University of Michigan library keep an index of short stories going back to 1830
Poetry Foundation appear to run both as a commercial (or at least promotional) vehicle as well as an index of classic verse.

This is not to mention author and subject indexes.

No wonder I have trouble getting a handle on index.htm  Anything that points things out at all points can be an index