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: Castle
Lighting a fuse
Instead of watching NCIS, I’m tuned in to the Elton John / Leon Russell live concert on fuse.tv. Today is the launch day for their new duet album, The Union, produced by T-Bone Burnett and featuring such guest performers as … Continue reading
This is not Woody Allen
Join editor Nancy Kilpatrick and authors from Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (including me) tomorrow on the Bitten by Books online launch event from noon central on Wednesday, through to noon central on Thursday. Post your question for … Continue reading
Any questions
Didn’t get the short story out the door like I planned. I started working my way through it one more time and made quite a few changes. Then when I was doing my morning calisthenics I came up with a … Continue reading
Fifties flashback
I can’t remember the last time the temperature was in the fifties, but that’s where it was overnight. I wish there was a pause button that would let me capture the current climate conditions and replay them day in and … Continue reading
Checking for implants
I’m so pleased with my decision to switch to Chrome on my home desktop computer that I converted to it on my work desktop as well, and I think I’ll put it on my laptop next. I only have one … Continue reading