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
Assault
I wrote a 3000-word short story beginning to end this weekend. I’ve been contemplating the story for weeks, and I even made a false start of a few pages on it a while back, but I finally figured out what … Continue reading
Stammering
I finished I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman while traveling last week. She did a very good job of implying that there was something undisclosed about the protagonist’s story that would come out during her meetings with her victimizer, … Continue reading
Merry Men
I read something on the order of 66 books this year, including the two that are still in progress: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (on my iPod) and I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman. If you’re interested in … Continue reading
Vigilantes in Love
I finished Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson this weekend (review pending) and downloaded Savages by Don Winslow to my Kindle. I’ve been hearing other people rave about how good it was, so I decided to give it a … Continue reading
These are not taxi doors
I finished my review of Djibouti by Elmore Leonard and posted it on Onxy Reviews. I’m still reading Bad Boy by Peter Robinson. Next up is Against All Things Ending, the third of four volumes in the Final Chronicles of … Continue reading
Is that “old lady” enough for you?
I reached the 6000 word mark on the story in progress, but it’s a downward mark. I started at 9600 words and am aiming at 5000-5500. Got rid of 700 words on the current pass, and I still have a … Continue reading