About
Bev Vincent is the author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences (nominated for a 2023 Locus Award), The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower (nominated for a Bram Stoker Award), and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award. In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright (a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee) with Stephen King.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. Four of his stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and another four in a CD Select eBook. His story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award. "The Honey Trap" from Ice Cold was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award in 2015 and "Zombies on a Plane" was nominated for an Ignotus Award in 2020.
His non-fiction has appeared in diverse magazines, including The Poetry Foundation, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem, Pensacola Magazine and Texas Gardener. He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001 and is a former member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews. He has served as a judge for the Al Blanchard, Shirley Jackson and Edgar Awards.
His work has been translated into: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, HItalian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Dearly Devoted
Amazon is offering a free download of the new Steve Winwood song Dirty City, with Eric Clapton on guitar. I like it . I watched The Sontaran Stratagem episode of Doctor Who last night, the first of a two-parter. Good … Continue reading
Darkly Dreaming
Editing is moving right along. I reached an old chapter this morning, one that was written a long time ago as part of a short story. In my memory it was going to require a lot of work because I … Continue reading
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I finished The Monsters of Templeton last night. Quite a good book. The multiple voices from the main character’s history are very well done. You need a genealogy chart to keep track of everyone—fortunately one is provided and updated throughout … Continue reading
Jason, jason, jason
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Survivor was case in point last night. Don’t frickin’ trust anyone. Geez. That should be branded on everyone’s foreheads before they’re dropped on the island. He wanted so … Continue reading
The final three
Got some good work done editing the novel this morning. I’m not polishing at this point, but sanding down the rough edges. If my agent likes the book enough to suggest revisions, that’s the stage where I’ll really knuckle down … Continue reading
Green is all there is to be
So sez Kermit, at least. Happy Earth Day. Received notice this morning that Hotmail will no longer support Outlook Express as of June, which is how I read my e-mail on a couple of computers I use, so I upgraded … Continue reading
Honker. Big freakin’ honker.
Back to work revising the novel this morning. Slow but steady wins the day, or something like that. One section will require substantial renovation, but I’m not sure I’ll get to it this week. In the first draft, I left … Continue reading
Picture a multimedia short story trailer
This is pretty cool. Here’s the multimedia trailer for my short story Groundwood, which will be published at Wrong World in July.
Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie
When will they ever learn? I got a laugh out of James muttering that he thought he was the stupidest Survivor player ever until Jason made that “bone-headed” deal, but Ozzie qualifies as a runner-up for sure. It was a … Continue reading
Guess they didn’t get the memo
Our Easter lilies are fixin’ to flower sometime within the next week or so. These were discards from a local church event several years ago, and we never expected them to last so long. Not only have they lasted, they’ve … Continue reading