In this Issue...
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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