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
Little scientists
I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay yesterday and put it on the dashboard to appear this Friday. I dreamed the essay during the wee small hours of Saturday morning, so all I had to do was write it down, more … Continue reading
TV Catchup
I caught up on some shows I recorded during the week. I’m not sure why I’m still watching Raising the Bar, as it does absolutely nothing to raise the bar for courtroom dramas. It’s basically L.A. Law for public defenders. … Continue reading
CSI got it right
An interesting shake-up on Survivor: Gabon. Take one strong team and one weak team, shuffle them up and get: one apparently strong team and one apparently weak team. What are some of those players thinking, sitting around while they’re getting … Continue reading
C’mon, Move to Canada!
Someone posted this to the mystery Usenet group this morning and I had to pass it along. “If John McCain and Sarah Palin win in November, it’s likely to be more than many Democrats can stand. Slate V imagines how … Continue reading
Dexter Season 3 Episode 2
If you’re not up to speed on Dexter, look away…or don’t go behind the cut. One thing the show does very well is ramp up tension. Dexter needs to search a house tonight…but he’s got to go to dinner with … Continue reading
Biden for president
I couldn’t force myself to watch all of last night’s debate. I watched the beginning for about 20 minutes, and then another 20 minutes near the one-hour point. My conclusion is that they said the same thing they said during … Continue reading
Ike’s footprints slowly vanish
They gathered the last of the debris from in front of our house yesterday. Not every house on the block was as lucky. I still haven’t figured out the rationale behind the collection pattern. It looks all but random. There … Continue reading
The sky is falling!
Okay, I was wrong. In my last post I suggested that Saturday Night Live wouldn’t find much material from the VP debate last week. Instead, they came up with a hilarious 12-minute sketch that captured the essence of the 90-minute … Continue reading
Tina Fey is unemployed
I’m sure she was counting on a return gig to SNL this weekend to parody last night’s debate, but I don’t think Palin gave her anything to work with. A lot of people tuned in expecting a meltdown or a … Continue reading
Law & Order: Red Dragon
As I write this, Peter Straub is about to appear on One Life to Live. This isn’t the first time he’s shown up on the soap opera, where he plays a blind, retired cop. I’ve seen him at least once … Continue reading