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: January 2009
Burn After Reading
The first episode of the second season of the UK edition of Life on Mars covers similar ground to The Dead Zone. If you knew beyond all doubt that someone was going to commit heinous crimes in the future, would … Continue reading
Held back
The Closer is back on TNT. I was interested to see how they handled the cliffhanger from the end of last season. They simply skipped ahead without going through any of the handwringing or agonizing over the fate of a … Continue reading
Frost on the pumpkins
We don’t actually have pumpkins, but we did grow them when I was growing up and I think the source of the saying was that they were among the most vulnerable garden plants to the cold weather. They were fussy … Continue reading
Winter is back
Probably not the same definition of winter as used in many parts of the country, but when it gets down to 32° in Southeast Texas, it’s winter. No precipitation, just cold—and it only made it up to 45° during the … Continue reading
A Chill in the Air
Not really—it’s nearly 80°, but it’s supposed to go down to near-freezing tonight and there could be ice storms a couple of dozen miles north of us. Instead of finishing off Chapter 8 of the book in progress, I did … Continue reading
Slow Leak
I haven’t been reading much for the past month. I picked up Chelsea Cain’s second novel, Sweetheart, on Saturday and finished it this morning. It’s a sequel to Heartsick, which introduces Gretchen Lowell, a female version of Hannibal Lecter. The protagonist, … Continue reading
Pulling the trigger
I spent last night and this morning going over the manuscript one more time before I send it off to my editor today. I also received the final contract to sign last night. The timeline for deliverables is spelled out … Continue reading
A ton of awesomeness
I finally received my copy of CD #59 last night. The magazine has been on newsstands for several weeks but, owing to some problems with the mailing house, copies are still trickling out to subscribers. I’ve already turned in my … Continue reading
Doing Lunch
Tonight is Lost night chez moi. All Lost, all the time. Three solid hours. Yes, I know I’m totally up to date, so I could skip the recap show, but maybe there will be one little tidbit of information that … Continue reading
Burn Notice
My wife and I are the same age as the president(-elect, for a little while longer). I’m a couple of months older; she’s a month younger. We’re all Class of ’79. Our generation is getting its shot at the brass ring, … Continue reading