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: October 2008
Tipping
An acquaintance at the bagel shop where we have breakfast most mornings mentioned that there’s a port-a-pottie in a cul-de-sac on their street associated with some local construction group. By some miracle, the thing remained standing during Hurricane Ike. However, … Continue reading
Going back to school
I met with the Creative Writing class at a local high school this morning to talk about writing. It’s a fairly small group, about a dozen or so. Some were poets, some were short story writers or novelists, one guy … Continue reading
David Tennant quits as Doctor Who
David Tennant is to stand down as Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show. Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after … Continue reading
A matter of character
I think I discovered something that is probably fairly obvious to most people, and that I knew on some level, but it emerged in concrete word form today: the best TV series are the ones where the plot reflects on … Continue reading
Evolution
I started reading Drood last night, the next Dan Simmons novel. It’s historical fiction based on Charles Dickens’ infamous unfinished manuscript, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The story starts late in Dickens’ life and he doesn’t come off as a … Continue reading
RFA Petroleum
My grandfather Vincent died over a decade before I was born. There’s a legend that he jumped ship in Halifax in 1908, meant to explain how he ended up in Canada. While going through some old photographs this weekend, I … Continue reading
Weekend ketchup
Katie Holmes comported herself quite well on this week’s Eli Stone. She starts out in a vision as a jazz club singer and turns up later as a butterfingered attorney bound for Kenya. She knows how to use her eyes, … Continue reading
Brrrrrr
Had to turn the heat on for the first time in six months. It got down into the 30s overnight. I sleep better when it’s cool, I find. I decided to get on the WordPress bandwagon and redid my website … Continue reading
Giving WordPress a shot
Today I’m launching a new version of my website using WordPress as blogging software. I’m not 100% settled on the theme, but this one is better than the others I’ve test driven, and the three-column layout seems better than the … Continue reading
A shot in the arm
I’ve been invited to speak to the creative writing class at the local high school next week. The day before Halloween, actually. They’re going to read my Halloween story “Harming Obsession,” and I also sent them “One of Those Weeks” … Continue reading