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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

March 1968 edition

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (AHMM) is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction.

The magazine was founded in 1956 by H.S.D. Publications and Richard E. Decker, who licensed the use of Alfred Hitchcock's name. Hitchcock's introductions in the magazine were ghost written by a variety of writers, including Robert Arthur.[1]

The first issue was dated December 1956 and was designated as volume 1, number 12.[2] The magazine's first editor was William Manners.[3]

Though there was no formal connection with the Hitchcock television series, stories published in the magazine were sometimes adapted by the producers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. A few writers, such as Henry Slesar, wrote for both. Other contributors during the magazine's early years included Evan Hunter (Ed McBain), Ed Lacy, Bill Pronzini, Donald E. Westlake and Charles Willeford.

In 1975, the magazine was acquired by Davis Publications, Inc., and since 1992 it has been published by Dell Magazines. Eleanor Regis Sullivan was the magazine's editor from 1975 to 1981, Cathleen Jordan from 1981 to 2002, and since then it has been edited by Linda Landrigan. After Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is the second-longest-running mystery fiction magazine.

In the late 1980s, the Vancouver Arts Club began a season of hour-long stage adaptations of stories from the magazine titled "There's Just One Hitch".[4]

In June 2003, the magazine's cover title changed to the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

In 2006, the magazine celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with the publication of the anthology Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense.

The magazine is published in Germany under the title Alfred Hitchcocks Kriminalmagazin.

Fiction Anthologies from AHMM

The 27 Hitchcock Anthologies

Between 1976 and 1989, Davis Publications released 27 anthologies of stories from the magazine...

  1. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Keep You Spellbound (1976)
  2. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Take Your Breath Away (1977)
  3. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Blood Run Cold (1978)
  4. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Scare You Stiff (November 1978)
  5. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Send Chills Down Your Spine (May 1979)
  6. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Be Read with Caution (1979)
  7. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Fill You with Fear and Trembling (1980)
  8. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Teeth Chatter (1980)
  9. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make Your Hair Stand on End (April 1981)
  10. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make You Weak in the Knees (November 1981)
  11. Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Make You Quake & Quiver (May 1982)
  12. Alfred Hitchcock's Your Share of Fear (July 1982)
  13. Alfred Hitchcock's Death-Reach (November 1982)
  14. Alfred Hitchcock's Fatal Attractions (April 1983)
  15. Alfred Hitchcock's Borrowers of the Night (July 1983)
  16. Alfred Hitchcock's A Choice of Evils (October 1983)
  17. Alfred Hitchcock's Mortal Errors (January 1984)
  18. Alfred Hitchcock's Crime Watch (June 1984)
  19. Alfred Hitchcock's Grave Suspicions (October 1984)
  20. Alfred Hitchcock's No Harm Undone (1985)
  21. Alfred Hitchcock's Words of Prey (April 1986)
  22. Alfred Hitchcock's A Mystery By the Tale (1986)
  23. Alfred Hitchcock's A Brief Darkness (June 1987)
  24. Alfred Hitchcock's The Shadow of Silence (December 1987)
  25. Alfred Hitchcock's Most Wanted: The First Lineup (June 1988)
  26. Alfred Hitchcock's Shrouds and Pockets (November 1988)
  27. Alfred Hitchcock's Murder & Other Mishaps (June 1989)

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Scanned Issues

A few of the older issues are available to view as a scanned PDF:

Individual Issues

Details for individual issues of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, primarily sourced from The FictionMags Index

The list is currently incomplete and not all issues have full details of contents.

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Notes & References

  1. ↑ The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (2001) by Martin Grams Jnr & Patrik Wikstrom, page 575
  2. ↑ In other words, the issue number matched the month of the year (The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (2001) by Martin Grams Jnr & Patrik Wikstrom, page 575)
  3. ↑ Mystery Readers' Advisory : The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001) by John Charles, Joanna Morrison, and Candace Clark
  4. ↑ Vancouver Sun (05/Aug/1987) - There's a Hitch in these thrillers
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