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
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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
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Finished the first draft of the essay that’s due in a few weeks. 5000 words, though who’s counting? I wasn’t given an upper limit. I suspect it’s going to grow a bit on my first round of revisions, then perhaps … Continue reading
Unstoppable
After a few more review passes, I submitted the newest short story to the editor. It was a little bit presumptuous, but just a little. This is for an invitation-only anthology and one of the other contributors asked me to … Continue reading
Brief notes
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down from Mario Guslandi at Horror World. I’ll answer to Ben, if you like. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in Ottawa sometime last year to get copies of one of my uncle’s … Continue reading
To coin a word
Received my contributor copy of Dead Reckonings 8 on Friday. It contains my review of Dan Simmons’ Black Hills, which I submitted for issue 7 but got held over. Mildly chagrined by the conspicuous typo on the cover. I received … Continue reading
Where was the flux capacitor?
I wrote a 600-word short story this morning for NPR’s three-minute stories competition. I only found out about it a few days ago, thanks to someone’s link on Facebook, and it took me until today to come up with an … Continue reading
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
The S-Team
For some reason or other, I never watched the TV series The A-Team. I was aware of it, and knew a bit about the characters, but I ignored it, which is strange because I liked George Peppard, especially when he … Continue reading