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Title: Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Series: May 2012
Editor: Linda Landrigan
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 115
Words: 41K
Having finished up the collections of old Hitchcock anthologies that I had on hand, I found a couple of the “new” Mystery Magazines and decided to try them out. This was touted (on the cover) as the “humor issue” and I’m afraid the writers took that to mean “light and whimsical” instead of as funny.
The stories themselves barely passed muster and if I’d had to read a whole book, instead of a magazine, of them, I think I can safely say this would have gotten 2.5stars. These were the kind of stories that get salted between good stories in the old collections; that way you didn’t notice their mediocrity as much. You just forgot about them. But here, all you had was mediocre and so while I have already forgotten them, I can’t collectively forget them.
I have several issues of this magazine to try out. What does give me hope is that you can still get subscriptions (paper or digital) to AHMM, so they must have done something correct to keep on going this long. I just hope I find out what, because this issue was not very good.
What I am afraid of is that people are so undiscriminating in their reading tastes that anything with Hitchcock’s name will draw them in and they will accept any old sock as a “good story” when it really isn’t.
I’m just being really negative right now though. So here’s to a brighter future in later issues!
★★★☆☆
Table of Contents – click to open
Department: EDITOR’S NOTE: UNEXPECTED by Linda Landrigan
Department: THE LINEUP
Fiction: SHANKS COMMENCES by Robert Lopresti
Fiction: LEWIS AND CLARK by John M. Floyd
Fiction: SPRING BREAK by R.T. Lawton
Department: MYSTERIOUS PHOTOGRAPH: DOGWATCH
Fiction: WIND POWER by Eve Fisher
Department: BOOKED & PRINTED by Robert C. Hahn
Fiction: FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY by Ron Goulart
Fiction: FASHIONED FOR MURDER by Shauna Washington
Fiction: MR. CROCKETT AND THE BEAR by Evan Lewis
Fiction: CARRY-ON by Wayne J. Gardiner
Department: THE STORY THAT WON
Department: COMING IN JUNE 2012
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