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
No lion
The decorations came down and were packed away a lot faster than they went up. Less than two hours from beginning to end. Back to the normal writing schedule this morning. I’m trying to do two things at once, which … 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 trailers were HOW loud?
My new essay went up on Storytellers Unplugged over the weekend. It’s called Promotional Consideration. We went to see Sherlock Holmes 2 yesterday. Other than the one for Iron Lady, the trailers had one thing in common: they were all … Continue reading
Would you let this man fix your computer?
Yesterday morning I was awakened at 4 am by what sounded like hail, as part of an impressive rainstorm that heralded a cold front coming through. If the rain had been snow instead, it would have been a blizzard. In fact, they … Continue reading
A buncha films
After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, the temperatures plummeted this weekend and we were under a freeze warning last night and again tonight. We had a very nice rainstorm over the long weekend, too. Both the cool weather and the … Continue reading
Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
Themed weekend
We received somewhere between 2 and 3″ of rain on Sunday. Some areas got as much as 5″. That’s the most rain we’ve had at once since July 2010. It rained steadily all day long. It was great. The kind … Continue reading
Five movies
One of the best ways to get caught up on films that you sort of wanted to see but never managed to get around to for one reason or another is to take a round-trip transatlantic flight. During our recent … Continue reading
Two trips to Berlin in one weekend
Got a lot of work done on the work in progress. Crossed the 15,000 word threshold this morning. Better than I anticipated. The heat has returned and we’re scheduled to reach or surpass 100° over the next few days. No … Continue reading