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
Category Archives: books
You say you want a resolution
This’ll probably be my last blog entry of 2011. The time when people might traditionally be expected to write about resolutions. Not me. I don’t make them. Never have. I’m not exactly an introspective person. Sure, I meet deadlines and … Continue reading
Bestsellers and out of stock books
Brimstone Press reports: Rage Against the Night, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings [which contains my story The View from the Top], was released in the days before Christmas, and it has very quickly become Brimstone Press’s most sought-after title. On Christmas Day, Rage … Continue reading
Dreaming of a wet Christmas
Back to the real world again after a 4-day weekend. The week between December 19th and yesterday was the rainiest we’ve seen in eighteen months. We went out to the family service on Christmas Eve in a drizzle and it … Continue reading
A bigger boat
Currently reading The Litigators by John Grisham. Quirky. Not his standard fare, at least not yet. I’m to the point where the drunk lawyer shows up at the ambulance chasers’ office. No real story, yet. I posted two new reviews this week: The … Continue reading
The reverse Hitchcock
90% of Texas is in a drought and no rain was expected in the coming days. We had very little in March and none so far in April. There was a 12% chance of precipitation today, which seems paltry given … Continue reading
There is hope in raindrops
Poked around at the novella renovation that I want to do next, but not much forward progress yet. Rewrote a couple of pages, updated them to a more contemporary setting and technology (the story was inspired by a very creepy … Continue reading
You can go home again, but maybe you shouldn’t
Rolling right along with the new work in progress. Wrote 1700 words this morning, which is a very decent output given the small chunk of time I have. I love scenes with a lot of dialog. They move along at … Continue reading
Lucky I brought my axe-cane
I’m making decent headway on the story that I need to get in the mail by Friday to meet the deadline. I wrote 1200 words yesterday morning, deleted 100 of them this morning upon revision and added another 1000 or … Continue reading
About Time
Yesterday was my lucky day, I guess. I won a free tire rotation by answering a trivia question on my local car dealer’s Facebook page, and when I got home I found a package containing both the hardcover and audio … Continue reading
Maybe I was paying attention
I received my first rejection letter of 2010. No, maybe it’s my second one. I think so. They don’t sting quite as much as they once did, but I had hopes for this one. It was intended for Blood Lite … Continue reading