Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
| Editor | Linda Landrigan |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Cathleen Jordan |
| Categories | Crime fiction, detective fiction |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Year founded | 1955 |
| Company |
Dell Magazines (1992–) Davis Publications (1975–92) HSD Publications (1956–75) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York, NY |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0002-5224 |
| OCLC number | 1479088 |
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine (AHMM) is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.
AHMM was founded in 1956 by HSD Publications, which licensed the use of the director's name. Though there was no formal connection with the television show, stories published in the magazine were sometimes adapted by the producers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (and later, 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, Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake and Charles Willeford (who briefly worked for the magazine, as did Patricia Hitchcock. Alfred's daughter).
In 1975 AHMM was acquired by Davis Publications, Inc., and since 1992 it has been published by Dell Magazines (which also produces its sister publication, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine). Cathleen Jordan edited the magazine from 1981 to 2002, and since then it has been edited by Linda Landrigan. After EQMM, AHMM is the second-longest-running mystery fiction 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.
In 2007, AHMM joined with The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout, to sponsor the Black Orchid Novella Contest for stories in the “classic detective” style of Stout’s Nero Wolfe.
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