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: movies
Vacation’s over
My long vacation is nearly at an end. I’ve been off work since the Friday before Christmas, but I have to go back for a three-day week tomorrow. Many of the daytime hours for the first week or so were … Continue reading
A whale of a finale
I spent much of Saturday responding to a series of interview questions. The interview will appear online in January. Links will, of course, be provided. I also polished off my Storytellers Unplugged essay, “Not the time to rewrite your text,” … Continue reading
Let’s all play Battleship
I finished The Twelve by Justin Cronin this weekend and posted my review. It’s a decent book, but it has some problems, some of them attributable to “middle-of-the-trilogy”-itis and some by questionable story structure. My review is posted here. I also reviewed Revenge … Continue reading
The knowledge
Watched Fearless Felix take his amazing leap into the history books yesterday. I can’t help but think there were moments when he had to ask himself what on earth he was thinking. Finished The Wire this weekend. The “serial killer” … Continue reading
I’m your Venus
I’m halfway through the fifth and final season of The Wire. I like the way they change up the theme song each season. I just realized that Steve Earle, who sings the theme for the final season, also plays Bubbles’ … Continue reading
The two are very close, but they never actually touch
I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning. It’s called “Writing In My Head,” and was inspired by a blog I read in the NY Times. It will appear on Friday morning. I’m on the verge of starting a new … Continue reading
Everybody dies in this movie
The Spirit of Poe is now available for Kindle. Only $3.99. I finished the second and third drafts of the new story I’m getting ready to submit. The first version was 5100 words and the third was 4100. Most of … Continue reading
You want more?
The Spirit of Poe is available at Amazon, finally, after some prolonged production delays. It contains my story “The Case of the Tell-tale Black Cat of Amontillado (with Zombies and an Ourang-Outang).” This collection, introduced by Dr. Barbara Cantalupo, offers … Continue reading
Miller Time
Our rain continued off and on over the weekend. It wasn’t too bad on Saturday but we had a heavy downpour yesterday. The timing was perfect: I hadn’t yet mowed the lawn so I couldn’t. The first thing I got … Continue reading
It’s a kind of magic
I think I only had to mow the lawn two or three times all last summer because of the drought. I mowed a week ago Saturday before the rains came and I had to do the same thing again this … Continue reading