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: Dexter
Prepare to be boarded
Few things will wake you up as quickly in the morning as sitting down at your computer, which you’ve left on overnight, to find only a black screen. All the lights are on, but nobody’s home. I’m not sure what … 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
Starting with the weather
There’s an old writing adage that says: Never begin with the weather. This isn’t fiction, so I’ll begin with the weather. Except, I’m not beginning with the weather, I’m beginning by writing about writing about the weather. I’m so confused. … 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
I don’t like unpredictable
We’re still on target to have every day in August go over 100° and still mired in drought. We had rain last Sunday but nothing since then. Yesterday we broke the record for the number of triple digit days in … Continue reading
Tiny little woman in a Hyundai
My essay for Screem #23 came in at 6300 words in first draft. I’m 2/3 of the way through my first editing pass and it’s now down to 6050 words. I expect it will get tightened up a little more … Continue reading
Failing Murder 101
Seems more and more likely that Tropical Storm Don, also known in yesterday’s post as the godfather, will hit the coast well south of us. The local weather prognosticators have doubts that we’ll see any rain from the system at all. … Continue reading
The godfather
Remember all that rainfall we haven’t received over the past nine months? The drought? The sixteen inch deficit for 2011 to date? There’s a decent chance we might make up most of it later on this week. It’s early days, … Continue reading
Vigilantes in Love
I finished Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson this weekend (review pending) and downloaded Savages by Don Winslow to my Kindle. I’ve been hearing other people rave about how good it was, so I decided to give it a … Continue reading