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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Keeping murder and mayhem literary since 1956! And don't miss our podcast series: ahmm.podomatic.com

Available at Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores, as well as online at TheMysteryPlace.com and in a variety of digital formats from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Magzter, Google Play, and Kobo.

16/01/2025

In our latest blog post, author and AHMM regular Michael Bracken discusses the origin of his Quarryville series of mysteries

When most readers and writers think of a crime fiction series, they envision following a single protagonist and his or her sidekicks through several stories. Consider, for example, Dashiell Hammett…

06/01/2025

Find out how James A. Hearn became a successful writer across multiple genres in this week's blog post. Hearn's latest story, "The Nine Lives of Dr. Impossible," appears in our Jan/Feb issue

If you’ve visited my website, the first thing to catch your eye was probably the dragon. It’s perched on a mountaintop only slightly smaller than itself, wings spread as if to fly off the screen. …

02/01/2025

Happy New Year to all friends and readers of AHMM! This week we're thrilled to share a new blog post by Joslyn Chase, whose latest story appears in our January/February issue

If you’re a reader of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, it’s a dead certainty you enjoy reading mysteries. It may reasonably follow that you delight in thrillers and suspense fiction, as well. A…

24/12/2024

Check out this week's blog post, where John M. Floyd discusses the childhood experiences that inspired his supernatural story "The Cado Devil," from our Jan/Feb issue

I grew up in a place and time where superstitions abounded. The place was rural Mississippi, and the time was the 1950s and ’60s, when kids were free to roam the countryside as long as they got hom…

16/12/2024

In this week's blog post, G.M. Malliet discusses her latest story from our January/February issue, on sale now!

I write short stories and novels and a novella here and there. I believe most authors write short stories as a way to “cleanse the palate” during the long haul of writing a novel, although some pre…

11/11/2024

Author Nick Guthrie discusses the benefits of mental rest for a writer's inspiration and productivity

It took me far too long to come to terms with the fact that a central part of writing is not writing. Way back in the late 1980s I took a year out after university to write full-time. At that point…

25/10/2024

Tom Larsen shares how his time in Ecuador inspired his latest story, "Las Hermanas Cubanas," featured in our November/December issue

The roots of the story “Las Hermanas Cubanas”—The Cuban Sisters—go back several years. In 2014, after retiring from my “real” job, my wife and I sold everything and left our home in Oregon for the …

10/10/2024

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Fall is arriving in our northeast United States HQ, and we’re thinking about our favorite fall reads. Let us know yours!

03/10/2024

Our editor Linda Landrigan is celebrating the publication of her very first piece of fiction! Check out this essay on her story "Born Cross-Eyed," which appears in a brand new collection of tales inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead

In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers […]

17/09/2024

In our latest blog post, science fiction author James Van Pelt discusses the inspiration behind his first mystery story, "Midnight Movie," now available in our Sept/Oct issue

I’ve been writing and selling short stories for almost four decades now, almost exclusively science fiction, fantasy and horror. Almost exclusively. I’ve also written westerns with time machines. H…

11/09/2024

Check out this week's blog post, where Pat Black recounts his lifelong love of all things macabre. You can find his latest story, "Masquerade," in our Sept/Oct issue, on sale now!

I’m not sure when it started—this fascination with dark things. It might be in the blood. Halloween was quite a big thing in Scotland. The guising is an old tradition. Dress up as a demon, to scare…

06/09/2024

Check out our latest blog post, where Dave Zeltserman discusses how he uses his Morris Brick novel series to come up with new short story ideas

Sometime around 2016 I started talking to Kensington Books about writing a series for them. The problem was what type, or genre, and after some discussion they thought a serial killer series would …

26/08/2024

Our latest blog post is sure to excite jazz fans and mystery lovers alike, as Floyd Sullivan discusses the musical origins of his latest AHMM story, "Cover Shot"

My high school junior theme was titled “Jazz as an Art Form.” It was 1966. I was sixteen years old and knew nothing about jazz except it seemed to favor saxophones, pianos, and trumpets…

19/08/2024

Bob Williamson takes a look back at the Southern California of his teens and discusses how it helped inspire his latest AHMM story, "Roses for Beth," available in our September/October issue

It began, appropriately, in Los Angeles, in the 1950s, guided by the HOLLYWOOD sign up on Mount Lee. Showtime! So, before preachers like Joel Olsteen and Pat Robertson there were Fred Schwartz and …

16/08/2024

Check out our latest blog post, where Jane Pendjiky discusses the stately English mansion that inspired her story "The Fall," which appears in our September/October issue, on sale this week!

I can still picture it. A ghostly green face staring through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez. Above it in black letters is the question: Whose Body? The memory takes me back to being twelve, standi…

29/07/2024

Hear from Libby Cudmore about the musical origins of her story "Alibi in Ice," which won this year's Black Orchid Novella Award and appears in our July/August issue

There were two main influences for “Alibi in Ice.” The first is obvious—I wanted to pay homage to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, which meant that my main sleuth, rock-star-turned-private-eye Martin…

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