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
Of course Roland drives an Infiniti
My social networking has slowed down lately. I’ve been lax about updating this blog, I spend almost no time on Facebook and I’ve completely ignored Google+ after signing up for it. Twitter is about the only medium that I’m keeping … Continue reading
Your call is important to us
This weekend I started and completed a 950-word essay for a new project that should be announced later on this week. On Saturday, while Irene was bearing down on the East Coast, we tied for the highest temperature ever recorded … Continue reading
Colin Maloney’s bad day
I finished most of what I set out to do this weekend. The one thing I didn’t do was go see Cowboys & Aliens. I was going to do a doubleheader with Rise of the Planet of the Apes but … Continue reading
Five films
We had a movie binge weekend. In addition to watching Doctor Who (about which more later) and a Graham Norton rerun we saw: True Grit. I’ve never seen the original, not being a huge John Wayne fan. It’s hard to … Continue reading
Country Strong
I finished reading Other People We Married by Emma Straub this morning. Very well written literary stories, mostly about unhappy people in bad relationships who are on the verge of making decisions about how to change their situations. Reminded me a … Continue reading
What do you call a duel between three people? A trial?
With World Horror less than a week today, there’s lots of business to do to keep me busy (and away from writing as much as I’d like). I’ll be leaving for Austin on Wednesday to get there in time for … Continue reading
Forget the original: just get a good copy
Yesterday I got all my rewrites done on the first 7000 words of the novella in progress to change one event and propagate its impact through the rest of the story. The way people react to a disappearance is perforce … 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
Penguin -> Peahen
Some days are lost to writing because you have to look after real life every now and then. Spent most of yesterday running around getting my car tended to. It’s not something I have to do very often, given that … 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