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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.
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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!
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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....

09/26/2025

🚨 Literary History Unearthed 🚨
Raymond Chandler’s never-before-published “Nightmare” is finally here — only in The Strand Magazine.

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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.