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
Author Archives: Bev Vincent
False alarm
On Saturday evening, after supper, it was nice enough for us to take the rest of our wine and sit in the driveway while we enjoyed the spring-like weather. Yesterday morning it was 35° and we ran the fireplace last … Continue reading
Spring 2019
It’s been a while since my last blog post. Busy times, but normally busy. Nothing out of the ordinary. Writing, taxes, reading, etc. We’ve seen the temperature go up and down and up and down. The plants and animals must … Continue reading
The people next door (to the people next door)
On my way home from work last night, I noticed a sheriff’s marked unit parked in a cul de sac up the street. Not at anyone’s house, just parked, facing out, as if they were watching something. Since participating in … Continue reading
Around the world in 30 days
By my estimate, I traveled far enough to circumnavigate the globe and then some since my last post. At the end of December, my wife and I flew to Okinawa to visit with family for a week, about 7500 miles … Continue reading
Movies of 2018 (and well before)
According to my tally (you can see the whole list here), I saw 58 feature-length movies this year. Many of them are current–to within the last year or two–but others date back decades, with the earliest being the 1943 vampire … Continue reading
Television 2018
Publishers Weekly, the premiere trade magazine for the publishing industry, reviewed over 8000 books this year. Today they released their list of the top ten most-read reviews of the year and, guess what? Flight or Fright appears in the #5 … Continue reading
Reading and writing 2018
The four-day weekend is over and I’m back to the “real world” for the next few days. We cooked a lot of great meals (our first attempt at beignets worked out well, although we discovered they don’t reheat very well), … Continue reading
Blue Elves
I’ve been lax about updating this blog lately. Terribly busy on many fronts, as I’m sure many people are. I finished my fifteen-week stint with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy in early December, which has provided me … Continue reading
I think they’re going to play my ring tone
As long as I’ve had a cell phone that allows you to customize the ring tone, I’ve used “Sirius” by Alan Parsons. You know the one, the lead in to “Eye in the Sky” made famous by the Chicago Bulls … Continue reading
Shoot / don’t shoot
An interesting weekend. For one thing, I received two short story acceptances within about an hour of each other. That’s always nice. One of the stories is about ten years old and has been out the door over a dozen … Continue reading