Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

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 (under the pen name Ed McBain), Ed Lacy, Bill Pronzini, Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake and Charles Willeford (who briefly worked for the magazine). Pat Hitchcock, Alfred's daughter, also briefly worked for the magazine.

In 1975, AHMM was acquired by Davis Publications, which later sold the magazine along with its sister publication, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine to Dell Magazines in 1992. It was sold to 1 Paragraph Inc. in 2025.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-26 |title=Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Under New Ownership |url=https://locusmag.com/2025/02/analog-asimovs-and-fsf-under-new-ownership/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}

After EQMM, AHMM is the second-longest-running mystery fiction magazine. In 2006, the magazine celebrated its 50th 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.{{Cite web |title=Black Orchid Novella Award |url=https://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/about-alfred-hitchcock/black-orchid-novella-award/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Alfred Hitchcock |language=en-US}}

• HSD Publications (1956–1975)
• Davis Publications (1975–1992)
• Dell Magazines (1992–2025)
• 1 Paragraph Inc. (2025–present)

• William Manners (1956–1961){{Cite web |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 13 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/k00013.htm#A3 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.philsp.com}}
• Lisa Belknap (1961–1962){{Cite web |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 14 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/k00014.htm#A4 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.philsp.com}}
• Richard E. Decker (1963–1964){{Cite web |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 15 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/cfi/k00015.htm#A13 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.philsp.com}}
• G.F. Foster (1964–1967){{Cite web |title=Magazine Data File |url=http://www.philsp.com/links2.asp?magid=ALFREDHITCHCOCKSMYSTERYMAGAZINE |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=www.philsp.com}}
• Ernest M. Hutter (1967–1976)
• Eleanor Regis Sullivan (1975–1981){{Cite web |title=Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki |url=https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock's_Mystery_Magazine |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=the.hitchcock.zone}}
• Cathleen Jordan (1981–2002)
• Linda Landrigan (2002–present)

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!Year

!Number of Copies Printed

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|2013

|19,270

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|2017

|14,509

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|2023

|10,275

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|2024

|10,050

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Each issue contains original works of short crime or mystery fiction, as well as a book review column "Booked & Printed”, a puzzle, a "Mysterious Photograph” story contest, and a "Mystery Classic" reprint.

Over its history AHMM has published short fiction by noted mystery novelists such as Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, G. K. Chesterton, Ron Goulart, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Donald E. Westlake. The magazine has also regularly featured such short story specialists as John H. Dirckx, Kenneth Gavrell, Edward D. Hoch, Jack Ritchie, and Stephen Wasylyk.

Many writers have published their first mystery story in AHMM, including Mitch Alderman, Doug Allyn, Gregory Fallis, Steve Hockensmith, Martin Limón, D. A. McGuire, J. R. Parsons and I. J. Parker.

In recent years, regular contributors have also included Rhys Bowen, Jan Burke, O'Neil De Noux, John F. Dobbyn, Joan Druett, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, David Edgerley Gates, Toni Kelner, R. T. Lawton, Robert Lopresti, Beverle Graves Myers, Jas R. Petrin, Anthony Rainone, Stephen Ross, Gilbert M. Stack, Marianne Wilski Strong, Steven Torres, Elaine Viets, James Lincoln Warren, Sarah Weinman, Mike Wiecek and Angela Zeman.{{cite web|url=http://www.criminalbrief.com/| title=The Mystery Short Story WebLog Project |last=Warren|first=James|author2=Lopresti, Rob|author3= Zeman, Angela| year=2009| work=Crime Fiction| publisher=Criminal Brief |access-date=2010-02-20| location=Los Angeles| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100210114336/http://criminalbrief.com/| archive-date= 10 February 2010 | url-status= live}}

AHMM stories have won almost every major mystery award, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Mystery Writers of America; the Robert L. Fish Award for Best First Short Story; the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, presented at the Malice Domestic conference; and the Shamus Award for Best P. I. Short Story, presented by the Private-Eye Writers of America.

• Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology, (1977–1989) a spin-off magazine consisting of AHMM reprints

{{Reflist}}

• [http://trace-evidence.net/ Official blog]
• [https://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/ Official website]
• [https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock%27s_Mystery_Magazine AHMM] at the Hitchcock Zone
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20201027101913/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/c/clm18.htm AHMM US edition index] (archived)

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