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
Fibber McGee
Thank the gods for outlines. I don’t often work with one, but in the project I’m currently working on it was required and now that I have one, I’m free to jump around from one section to another at random, … Continue reading
A writer in need
Edward Bryant is best known as a horror and science fiction writer, with numerous Nebula and Bram Stoker awards for his fiction. He is also known as a reviewer and critic, with his work appearing regularly in Locus Magazine and … Continue reading
Optical camels
A gloomy, dark, rainy, cool morning, but the rest of the week looks promising. I’m setting an aggressive pace for myself on this new project that materialized recently. I have until the end of February to write 25-30,000 words, which … Continue reading
Hot and cold
45° today; almost 80 by Thursday. If someone could figure out a way to harness the power of oscillating mercury, we could put an end to the energy crisis. I received a couple of gift cards to bookstores, so I … Continue reading
The Next Doctor
A cold front is sweeping through southeast Texas. It was 82° yesterday and fairly balmy this morning, but then the temperature began to plummet. At present it feels like it’s about 50 and we’re destined for the low 40s overnight … Continue reading
Hancock surprise
The surgical procedure on an old short story has turned radical. It started at 6200 words, ended up at 4600 words after the first edit and is currently at 3600 words in the midst of the next editing round. What’s … Continue reading
A meta-mystery
RIP Donald Westlake. He was one of the truly great ones. The Sleuth channel seems to have vanished from my cable system. It used to be right there at #227, between BBC and Biography channels. For the last two days, … Continue reading