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In the Mag

Summer Issue
* Fiction by
Earl Hamner, Christopher Fowler, Rhys Bown, John Floyd & Michael Kurland
* Interviews
Jeffery Deaver
R.L. Stine
 
 
 
In the Mag

 
In this Issue...

mysteries from vintage

Having reached our 25th issue, I’m now starting to envision how I’ll look when issue 100 is published. I can imagine myself with gray hair, though with luck and work I’ll keep the same waist size. I’ll be forever reminiscing about how my favorite team, Greece, won the European Cup soccer tournament years ago. I’ll complain about how writers are cavalier when it comes to deadlines and how those moments after putting an issue to bed are so, so brief before having to plan the next one. Maybe things never change! And yet, going over issues from the first to the latest, I’m struck by how much the magazine has evolved.

In this issue, Earl Hamner Jr.—who wrote several screenplays for the original Twilight Zone—contributes a tale about a strange fishing trip with “The Guide,” while the talented English novelist and screenplay writer, Christopher Fowler probes the depths of the great London smog of 1952 in “Bryant & May in the Soup.” Rhys Bowen, who has just been nominated for an Anthony award for “Please Watch Your Step”—a short story first published in The Strand—pens a tale vengeance in “Do Have a Cup of Tea.” Offering a first-hand lesson in employing a go-between, John Floyd tells the story of “Debbie and Bernie and Belle,” and Michael Kurland has Holmes’ arch nemesis Moriarity on the case in “The Picture of Oscar Wilde.”

For this issue, I also interviewed two of my favorite writers, Jeffery Deaver and R.L. Stine. I first met Jeff a few years ago in Detroit where he was giving a lecture, and during dinner he and I spoke about some of the great authors of the 20th century. It’s easy to see the influence that writers such as Graham Greene, William Faulkner and Leo Tolstoy have had on his work. Bestselling author and Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine has brought hours of reading delight to kids around the world. His fan base is one of the largest ever, yet he is one of the most self-effacing and humble people I have ever met. Throughout his career, Bob has never “written down” to kids, and has instead filled his books with the kinds of creatures and situations he himself loved being frightened by when he was young.

Continuing our Great Detectives series, Barry Forshaw delivers an in-depth profile of Colin Dexter’s cantankerous yet likeable Inspector Morse. Meanwhile, Anthony Rainone gives us the scoop on The Strand Magazine Critics Award, the winner of which will be announced July 9th at an award celebration in New York City.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer.



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