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: Doctor Who
Anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake
Will the Canucks do it tonight? Win the Stanley Cup for the first time ever and bring it back to Canada for the first time in nearly two decades? Their performance in Boston hasn’t been stellar so far, and they … Continue reading
On a horse with no name
Houston set a record yesterday for the highest temperature ever seen in June: 105°. Not just for the day, for the entire month. We also heard thunder rumbling all afternoon, but that didn’t give us any rain. The rain did … Continue reading
Co-starring a dog
Got a lot done on the novella in progress this weekend. I have until the end of next weekend to finish it off. Looks like I’ll make it after all. I’ve been away from it for a while, but when … 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
Madness is what genius looks like to a tiny mind
We spent the weekend in a beachfront house in Surfside, Texas, which is on the Gulf of Mexico about 45 miles down the coast from Galveston. This is our fourth trip to that community, and our third staying in the … 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