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
Renewed
The interesting thing about House, M.D. is that it is a medical forensics program where the actual medicine is probably the least interesting part of the show. Who really cares whether the victim of the week has croup or whooping … Continue reading
In time for Halloween
I’m Going to Tell You One More Time, a reprint Halloween anthology featuring stories by Mort Castle, JG Faherty and almost two dozen others, including yours truly ("Harming Obsession"), is now on sale. The collection may be purchased for just … Continue reading
Big deals
I bought a memory stick (flash drive) yesterday. $30 for 8 gigs. Eight gigs! I was able to back up my entire “My Documents” folder onto it save for my music folder, and I still have gigs to spare. I … Continue reading
Harming Obsession in DVD/PDF
QWAND LLC’s publishing unit WRONG WORLD announced today the release of 20-HALLOWEEN-08 —I’m Going to Tell You One More Time. The collection contains 24 stories by these 24 excellent authors: • Sara Joan Berniker • Mort Castle • Ralan Conley … Continue reading