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
Hop a Freighter
One thing I’ve discovered in the writing life: if you query a market about a long overdue submission, chances are you won’t get good news in return. The story in question was submitted to a specific issue of a magazine … Continue reading
Give me a number. Thirteen.
Something you don’t ever want to hear a doctor say: “I’m just going to remove the top few layers of cells.” Not when the doctor is an optometrist and it’s a few layers of cells from the surface of your … Continue reading
Needles and Pins
Another nice review of Thin Ice. It says, in part, “More than a few twisted endings will make the whole thing even more enjoyable. In particular, the first story, winner of the Al Blanchard Crime Fiction Award, The Bank Job … Continue reading
Two Beavers Are Better Than One
My interview at Level Best Books went up today. Check it out. I talk a bit about setting stories in New England and about writing in general. Isn’t that one of the most handsome covers you’ve ever seen? I think … Continue reading
Adventures in Modern Recording
I got my new iPod rebuilt this weekend. Took a while to restore over 6000 songs and make sure the album graphics were there, too. I know I could have skipped that step but I figured if I was going … Continue reading
Is this your monster?
For a while last night I wondered if we had goofed and that the trick-or-treaters had been out the night before. When I was young, living in eastern Canada, if Halloween was on a Sunday, trick-or-treating was done on Saturday … Continue reading
My hobby is silence
Tutto su Stephen King should be available tomorrow. My first work to be translated into Italian, to the best of my knowledge. I finished Djibouti by Elmore Leonard this weekend. I enjoyed the book overall, though there was one decision … Continue reading
It’s only bullets whistling by
Rubicon ended with a whimper, not a bang. And I really thought we’d hear that bang, or something like one. We still have no indication whether or not the series will be renewed for a second season, so there are … 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
The new hot profession: Cleaner
I think I have the short ( now shorter) story ready to submit in the morning. It ended up at 5300 words. I think I might add a few back in and give it one last read-through. Then it’s on … Continue reading