The Strand Magazine

12/20/2025

A newly released Tennessee Williams radio play, published just in time for the holidays.

The Strangers, a horror tale written during the playwright’s college days, appeared in the Strand magazine this week

12/20/2025

Found: lost play that Tennessee Williams wrote as a student
The Strangers is thought to have been submitted for a university radio station but it is unclear if it ever aired . . .

The Strangers is thought to have been submitted for a university radio station but it is unclear if it ever aired

12/17/2025

AP News broke the story today — a rare, early work from one of America’s greatest playwrights, now published in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

"The Strangers" is a haunting radio drama filled with stormy seas, eerie sounds, invisible specters, and the psychological depth Tennessee Williams would become famous for . . .

Tennessee Williams' early radio play, “The Strangers,” is featured in The Strand this week. Written in the late 1930s while Williams was a student at the University of Iowa, the play showcases classic radio horror elements like storms and spectral beings.

12/12/2025

Sherlock Holmes to Sleuth: 10 of the greatest murder mysteries ever!

As the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, is released on streaming, here are more ingenious – and confounding – whodunnits to watch and read.

11/28/2025

Black Friday, minus the chaos.

No parking-lot gridlock.
No scented-candle showdowns.
No checkout lines that last longer than classic novels.

Just a calm, cozy deal from The Strand:
The Holiday Mystery Bundle — free book, free Raymond Chandler issue, free bookmark.
https://strandmag.com/product/raymond-chandler-issue-with-a-free-book-plus-a-one-year-subscription-4-issues/

11/16/2025

Step into a Victorian winter on Baker Street… ❄️🕯️
Our limited-edition Sherlock Holmes Calendar 2026 has just arrived!

Featuring a brand-new illustration created exclusively for The Strand Magazine, this calendar brings Holmes, Watson, and the charm of 221B to your wall all year long.

✨ Perfect for Sherlockians
✨ Beautiful gift for the holidays
✨ Standalone purchase — limited quantities available

Sherlock Holmes Calendar 2025 is a "The Strand" exclusive, printed every year on glossy paper and filled with Holmesian trivia perfect for any fan.

11/07/2025

✨ It’s finally here!

We’re thrilled to announce the release of The Best of The Strand Magazine: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction!

This collection brings together the finest stories from The Strand’s remarkable legacy—featuring literary legends such as Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, R.L. Stine, and many more.

From dark noir to sharp psychological suspense, these stories showcase 25 years of The Strand’s finest work.

🎉 Available now wherever books are sold!
📖 Get your copy here: https://strandmag.com/product/add-to-wishlist-best-of-the-strand-magazine-25-years-of-twists-turns-and-tales-from-the-modern-masters-of-mystery-and-fiction/

Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

11/06/2025

Chandler a character in his own story? Find out on

Noir writer Raymond Chandler died in 1959.

10/31/2025

The Top Ten Tales You Need to Read this Halloween I live in Salem, Massachusetts, so I’m pretty hard to frighten. As Salemites, we live within our dark history, developing a kind of generational guilt [...]

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....