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
City on Fire by Don Winslow
The peaceful—occasionally even amicable—relationship between the members of the Irish and Italian families who control much of the crime and labor in Providence, Rhode Island in 1986 is at a crossroads. Members of the older generation of both families are … Continue reading
2022 – Last-Minute Additions
A couple of last-minute additions to my year-end stuff. My new Benjamin Kane story “A Woman Called Rage” appears in the charity anthology The Place Where Everyone’s Name is Fear. The anthology consists of essays, poetry and short fiction. All proceeds go … Continue reading
2022 – A Year in Review – Part 4 – Movies
Either with my wife or by myself, I watched over 70 movies this year. Only a few of them were films I’d seen before, including a few Star Trek movies. I rectified a longstanding oversight and finally saw Blade Runner … Continue reading
2022 – A Year in Review – Part 3 – TV Series
It’s fair to say I watched a lot of TV this year. There are always the usual network series (Law & Order, The Amazing Race, Survivor, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, The Rookie, Blue Bloods) watched weekly. I finished my rewatch of … Continue reading
2022 – A Year in Review – Part 2 – Books
I’ve had better reading years. I’m not exactly sure why I had difficulty carving out time to read. A kind of malaise, I guess. When I picked up my iPad, I found myself playing stupid games instead of reading. I’m … Continue reading
2022 – A Year in Review – Part 1 – Publications
Time to look back at the year that will be drawing to a close in less than two weeks and ruminate. Was it a good year? Was it a bad year? One for the history books or one we’d prefer … Continue reading
Publication Day
Today is publication day for Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences. I’m quite pleased with myself that I’m now able to type out that entire title without looking it up, including the serial comma! The … Continue reading
The Story Tree
I’ve often talked about my Stephen King origin story, how I randomly picked up a paperback copy of ‘Salem’s Lot at a used bookstore in 1979 and was immediately hooked. That book was not only my gateway to King—it stoked … Continue reading
Here there be ‘skeeters
A week from today is the official publication day for my new book Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences (and, yes, I have to look up the title every time I write it down—it was … Continue reading
Musical whiplash
Publication of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences has been pushed back a month due to supply-chain/transportation issues. Getting the book from the printer to the warehouse is proving to be complicated. However, that doesn’t … Continue reading