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: July 2009
Scared off another one
We finally got some rain yesterday. At first it looked like it was going to be another one of those teases. The sky got very dark, stayed dark, and then it rained for about 30 seconds and stopped. However, an … Continue reading
Remodeling a story
The short story that I submitted on Saturday was received favorably by the two editors who’ve read it so far, one of them tells me. It still has to pass by one more editor, so it’s not exactly accepted yet, … Continue reading
Best Laid Plans
Probably the only good thing about this drought we are in is the fact that I don’t have to mow the lawn. I think I’ve had the mower out once in the past six weeks. The grass is growing a … Continue reading
Be Seeing You
No, I’m not going anywhere. The subject line is inspired by this nine-minute trailer for the AMC remake of The Prisoner, which will air in November. It looks awesome–the original seen through new eyes. It reminds me of Life on … Continue reading
Have a horrible time in Austin
A World Horrible time, that is. The web site for WHC 2011 is now up and ready for registrations. In a moment of weakness I allowed myself to be roped into joining the committee, although my responsibilities will be limited … Continue reading
Tesseracts Thirteen
Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales from the Great White North, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morrell, will be published in September by Edge Books. I’ve submitted to this anthology series once or twice before, but this is the first time I’ve … Continue reading
Precip Tease
The new season of Burn Notice has come and gone quickly. Only two more new episodes left this summer. I guess that’s why the lead actor was at loose ends, allegedly driving around under the influence. Other than the rather poor performance … Continue reading
First gender, then identity
I got close to the end of the first draft of a 2500-word story this morning. It started out as a 500-word flash piece, but I always felt like I was paying the story short shrift, even though it was … Continue reading
The Bar
I checked out an electronic version of a novel from our local library, just to see how it’s done. The novel is What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman. Couldn’t transfer it to my Kindle–at least, I don’t think so, … Continue reading
Burned
I think I finally got a handle on the final essay I’m doing for an upcoming encyclopedia. I only had 500 words to work with, but I’m quite satisfied with the draft I completed this morning. I’ll read it over … Continue reading