How I Look at Art Navigating museums can be tricky. Blockbuster exhibitions have made what should be a quiet, intimate experience, too often crowded and difficult, chirping audio guides like crickets in the air, people jostling for a better view or worse, loudly critiquing the artwork to a friend. Sometimes I think art has become […]
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Ultimate Unpublished Gift Package: 11 Issues with Unpublished works by Hemingway, John Steinbeck, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, and Agatha Christie… This is the ultimate unpublished gift package. The name says it all! Our gift pack with lost works by Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, H.G. Wells, John Steinbeck, James Thurber, Agatha Christie, and Dashiell Hammett. This […]
How to Nail a Twist By Elka Ray Twist and shout How do you nail a twist? For Thriller readers, the only thing worse than a twist you saw coming is a twist so out there it feels tacked on from a whole other story. I’m not pointing fingers but […]
About two years ago, I sold my first novel, For Worse. Now, finally, it’s just a matter of weeks until my “pub date,” as we in the industry nonchalantly refer to a day on which I fully expect my head to explode. It was a seven year journey from the time I first thought of […]
“For a quarter of a century, The Strand has not only been bringing fabulous contemporary mystery and thriller stories to readers—but it has also managed, on an astonishingly regular basis, to dig up unpublished and long-lost stories by the titans of the past, including James M. Cain, Shirley Jackson, Raymond Chandler…” —Douglas Preston (New York […]
Issue 69 of The Strand Magazine features a previously unpublished short story by James M. Cain. We also have an exclusive from Jacqueline Winspear on writing, an interview with J.T. Ellison, and fiction by John Floyd, Adam Hamdy, and Vaseem Khan We’re very proud to feature in our 69th issue an unpublished short story by […]
Unpublished Truman Capote Story Truman Capote’s unpublished, complete, lost short story “Another Day in Paradise” has now been published for the first time ever here in The Strand. The story remained unpublished until it was found handwritten in the pages of a red and gold scrolled Florentine notebook. It has, like so much of Capote’s other works, […]
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My Favorite ’90s Horror Movies By: Emily Ruth Verona I love movies. I have always loved them. At a very early age my heart was cleaved in two, with half of my devotion going to books and half to movies. I’ve always valued them in equal measure. In college, I started out as a Creative […]