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 […]
“I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still […]
“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mystery and thriller stories to readers—but it has also managed, on an astonishingly regular basis, to dig up unpublished and long-lost stories by the titans of the past, including James M. Cain, Shirley Jackson, Raymond Chandler…” —Douglas Preston (New York […]
Mark Twain Issue featuring the previously unpublished short story “The Undertaker’s Tale” In addition to the sly and humorous “The Undertaker’s Tale”, the Strand also released a lost short story by P.G. Wodehouse “Providence and The Butler”. The legendary actor Christopher Plummer spoke about his storied carreer and his love for reading. And David Baldacci […]
Final Report on the Strand Critics Awards… (Alex Segura, Stacy Willingham, Lee Child, James Lee Burke, Nita Prose, and Dan Smetanka took home the top awards via a virtual ceremony held on Wednesday, Jan 10) Alex Segura in his first nomination for Best Novel took home the top prize for Secret Identity (Flatiron Books). […]
Issue 69 of The Strand Magazine features a previously unpublished short story by James M. Cain.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J.T. Ellison, and fiction by John Floyd, Adam Hamdy, and Vaseem Khan We’re very proud to feature in our 69th issue an unpublished short story by […]
Strand Magazine: Unpublished Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie (The Strand Magazine: Unpublished Raymond Chandler and the first US appearance of Christmas Adventure by Agatha Christie. Fiction by John Floyd, David Marcum, Rob Witherspoon, and an exclusive interview with James Lee Burke.) We’re proud to present an unpublished Raymond Chandler in the latest issue of The […]
ENGLISH CRIME STORIES FOR A WINTER NIGHT England is a small country, but the variety of landscapes is endless and the landscape sculpts the character of the people whose families have lived there for generations. There are the counties on the edge where the rest of the world doesn’t pass through. The only reason to […]
Ellery Queen Award winning quarterly publication dedicated to short fiction, mysteries, articles, interviews, and book reviews. The Strand Magazine is a quarterly which offers the best of both worlds—publishing previously unpublished works by literary masters such as John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Louisa May Alcott, Shirley Jackson, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler , Tennessee Williams, and H.G.Wells . The Strand Magazine also features new works by today’s bestselling […]
“The Life of Crime is the result of a lifetime of reading and enjoying all types of crime fiction, old and new, from around the world. In what will surely be regarded as his magnum opus, Martin Edwards has thrown himself undaunted into the breadth and complexity of the genre to write an authoritative – […]