The Strand Magazine

10/01/2025

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.

09/30/2025

A great article from CrimeReads

Hello everyone. I write to you with wonderful weekend news. This week, The Strand Magazine has published a new short story by Raymond Chandler. New? Well, it’s an old Raymond Chandler story, …

09/26/2025

We know Chandler gave us The Big Sleep—but his lost ‘Nightmare’ has finally awakened!

The latest issue of Strand magazine features a previously unpublished Raymond Chandler article discovered in a shoebox at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. The humorous and progressive article, entitled "Advice to a Secretary," reveals Chandler's contempt for grammarians and his discomfort....

09/26/2025

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09/25/2025

From the author who brought us THE BIG SLEEP we have a surreal nightmare!

The newly discovered short story appears to show a glimpse of the struggles the author went through before his first two novels were published

09/24/2025

Chandler Behind Bars: The Guardian Covers His Forgotten ‘Nightmare’

Nightmare will appear in the Strand magazine and portray an ‘incredibly sentimental’ side of the 20th century writer

09/24/2025

Breaking news from AP:
A piano, a pregnant woman and a prison: Raymond Chandler’s ‘Nightmare’ is revealed

“As I was wondering, apparently rather audibly, about the date set for my ex*****on, the guard said to me, ‘After a bit you’ll get a letter with the envelope addressed in your own writing. That will tell you the date for your hanging,’” Chandler wrote.

Raymond Chandler's “Nightmare,” a rarely seen sketch, has been published this week in The Strand Magazine.

09/16/2025

The Strand honors the unforgettable legacy of Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director, and founding father of Sundance.

Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-winning director

07/24/2025

"...the story is about an editor of a literary magazine who is 100 percent certain he's going to get fired from his job, because he's been ominously summoned to a meeting with his very rich boss. With a good amount of humor, but also self-deprecation, the narrator goes into all sorts of hypothetical situations in his mind, but also recalls the ways in which many of his other colleagues were fired or maneuvered into quitting outright."

Time to think about Ian Fleming differently.

06/19/2025

📚✨ “My Top Ten Fantasy Novels” by Kate Elliott ✨📚

Award-winning author Kate Elliott doesn’t believe in fixed “top ten” lists—but she does love sharing fantasy books that have rocked her world. From Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings to the epic Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu and the unforgettable Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, this list is a treasure trove for any fantasy fan.

🧙‍♀️ Explore original world-building, mythic forests, zombie-fighting heroines, and retired pirates with unfinished business.

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https://www.mysterycenter.com/2025/06/16/my-top-ten-fantasy-novels/

by Kate Elliott To be clear, I don’t have a fixed top ten fantasy novels. It would more like a top fifty, depending on my mood and the season or the year. I do understand [...]

06/17/2025

Many actors have taken a stab at portraying Agatha Christie's most renowned character, Hercule Poirot. But which actor was the best of the best?

06/13/2025

Understand American film noir with 11 genre-defining films from the 1940s and 1950s featuring cynical storylines and dark expressionist visuals.