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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
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On the road again
For the first time since July 2019 (when I went to NECON), I boarded an airplane. I can’t say it’s the first time I was at an airport since then because I had to make a few trips to pick … Continue reading
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of his Work, Life and Influences
In November, 2008, I was contacted out of the blue by an editor at becker&mayer! (the exclamation mark is part of their name) to see if I would be interested in writing the text for a book commissioned by Barnes … Continue reading
What happened to March?
Time flies when you’re having fun. (Even when you’re not, the corollary says, but that doesn’t apply to me.) I had been hoping to make The Big Announcement about my next book by now, but I’m still waiting on the … Continue reading
I guess this is “doing better”
So, it’s only been five weeks since my last post, so I consider that an improvement over the roughly half-year gap in 2021. Where to begin? Ok, business. I have a short story called “The Lagrange Point” in the anthology … Continue reading
Happy New Year
I became quite delinquent in updating my blog last year. I’m going to try to do better in 2022. I wonder how we would have reacted in March 2020 if we’d known that, two years later, we would still be … Continue reading
2021 in Review – Part 4: Books
My sorriest list for 2021 is the one for the books I’ve read. I only managed to read 29 thus far (although I do hope to get one or two more in before the end of the year. A lot … Continue reading
2021 in Review – Part 3: Movies
The last movie I saw in a theater was 1917 in January 2020, and I don’t expect that to change soon. We are perfectly content to enjoy new movies as they become available on streaming platforms. I know a lot … Continue reading
2021 in Review – Part 2: TV/Streaming
Before I get into my overview of TV, I have an addition to make to my publication list for 2021. Today is publication day for the anthology Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 6, which contains my story “The … Continue reading
2021 in Review – Part 1: Publications
It has been a long time since I posted to my blog. I keep intending to, but there are so many other shiny objects out there to occupy my waking hours, that I kept putting it off. As the end … Continue reading
Moderna World
My wife and I received our second Moderna vaccine doses on Sunday morning. Out of an abundance of caution, I decided to take yesterday off from the day job, as I’d heard there was a strong possibility of side-effects on … Continue reading