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
Brothers in arms
Product placement meets it’s inverse. Last night’s CBS comedies featured a series of commercials featuring Lara Spencer (formerly of Antiques Roadshow) discussing the shows we were watching as she prepared some instant meal. So, rather than injecting the brand name … Continue reading
Being quoted
I’m not sure why the southern blondes ended up so far behind on The Amazing Race last night. I guess they must have taken some wrong turns somewhere, because they ended up at the marina long after the other teams. … Continue reading
Stranger things have happened
One of the things I like about Walter on Fringe is that he gleefully admits that he’s not sure any of his hare-brained experiments are going to work. When Olivia questions whether his contraption might fry one of the pigeons, … Continue reading
Tracking submissions
My latest Storytellers Unplugged essay is now online: Tracking Submissions, in which I discuss mild OCD and keeping track of where short stories are, have been and might go.
Armed bastards
My new Storytellers Unplugged essay is online: Tracking submissions, in which I discuss mild OCD and keeping track of where your short stories are, were and could be. They did something on Survivor that telegraphed the final vote. By not … Continue reading
The Great Debate
So, Sigourney Weaver is God. Or, at least, His fiduciary. She made an interesting appearance on the season premiere of Eli Stone. It’s a curious show—I’m not a spiritual person by any stretch of the imagination, and I usually find … Continue reading
Spam tram and tingling gonads
I’m going to mention Life On Mars here to see if I can attract more spam comments from ABC. I started reading Black and White and Dead All Over last night. It’s by the same guy who wrote The Darwin … Continue reading
Arachnophobia
My short essay “Arachnophobia” can be found on the pages May 25-31 in the new Stephen King Library Desk Calendar. Other familiar names include Robin Furth, who edited it, Peter David, Jae Lee, Rich Chizmar, and Brian Freeman
Good night, Jethro-boy
So, Gibbs’ father is Papa Walton, Ralph Waite. I received my copy of The Stephen King Library Desk Calendar 2009. Not usually the sort of news worthy of mentioning, except it contains my short essay “Arachnophobia” on the page for … Continue reading
It’s election day…
…up north, at least. Voters are forging through blustery stormy weather (in Saskatchewan, at least) to cast their ballots for the next Prime Minister of Canada. Not directly, of course. Canadians never get to vote for their leader. It’s a … Continue reading