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Unpublished Rod Serling Short Story PLUS a One-Year Subscription (Four Issues)
(Strand Magazine: Featuring an Unpublished Rod Serling short story, fiction by Adam Hamdy, John Floyd, Vasa Clarke, and exclusives with Robert Littell and Laurie R. King)
The Strand Magazine’s spring issues features Rod Serling’s unpublished short story “First Squad, First Platoon” . Written after Serling returned from World War II, the story preceded his television career and draws from his experiences fighting with the 511th Airborne in the Philippines, where he witnessed some of the most intense combat of the entire conflict and the horrific deaths of many of his fellow soldiers. Serling wrote this story in his early twenties, yet it carries a maturity beyond his years. In terse prose, he delivers the immediacy, sense of place, and cutting dialogue you’d expect from Hemingway, Crane, or Dos Passos. It’s a powerful, unvarnished look at war in all its brutality—an unforgettable study of ordinary people in extraordinarily hellish situations. The short story is brilliantly put into context thanks to forewords written by his daughters Jodi Serling and Anne Serling.
Also in this issue, as coincidence would have it, the inimitable John Floyd offers us “Pushing Joe Carter,” a Twilight Zone-esque tale of man’s inhumanity to man with—you guessed it—a twist at the end. Adam Hamdy and Emily Fox show us the psychological toll a life in law enforcement can take on the psyches of those sworn to serve and protect in “The Fear in Their Eyes.” And Vasa Clarke has turned Holmes and Watson’s attention to an unlikely case involving veterinary medicine and national security in “The Adventure of the Ayrshire
We have an exclusive interview with espionage novelist Robert Littell. In a career spanning over half a century, Littell has elevated the genre into the realm of serious literature with scores of novels that have earned comparisons to the works of John le Carré, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, and Eric Ambler. He is indisputably the modern-day master of the literary spy novel. Throughout his writing career, Littell has used the genre of espionage fiction to explore and say something about the human condition. One of the hallmarks of his novels are his character-driven plots. He has a keen understanding of the men and women who live in the shadows where moral ambiguity reigns, and his complex characters often find themselves struggling to hold onto the last vestiges of their humanity amid the deception required by their work, as they fight for or against the inexorable, heartless tide of the realpolitik.
We also have an exclusive with Laurie R. King, known for her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series, among others. Throughout a prolific three-decade career, King has leveraged her extensive knowledge of history and literature to produce some of the most authentic historical novels of our time, not to mention several bestsellers set in the modern day, winning over legions of readers around the world.
As the weather warms, and benches and beaches beckon, you’ll no doubt need the best new books. Storm Watch by C. J. Box, Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith, and The Spy Coast by Tess Gerritsen are but a few of the many gems you’ll find in our reviews section.
In addition featuring this unpublished short story by Rod Serling, we’ve featured scores of unpublished works by legendary authors including Shirley Jackson, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, H.G. Wells, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Tennessee Williams, Louisa May Alcott, John Steinbeck, and Ray Bradbury.
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68 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches
