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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Spring ahead
According to one item I read, a software glitch made iPhones fall back an hour yesterday morning instead of springing ahead. My iPod got it right, so I wonder why the phones wouldn’t. No daylight savings today—a cool front passed … Continue reading
Are you wearing pants?
Took the morning off from writing work to do paperwork instead. Every now and then I have to do that. This weekend I have a story to start, an essay to write and two stories to get back into submission. … Continue reading
I won all of them
More work on the essay this morning. I hope to have it whipped into shape after another day or two. It has a lot going on, discussing a novel and three movies, and I want to keep it under 4-5000 … Continue reading
Heights, snakes and red-headed women
The new short story is at the upper limit in length of what I can review in a normal morning editing/writing session. I made it through the whole thing again today, whittling away about 200 words in the process, so … Continue reading
Well, she did set him on fire
It’s warming up—it’s all the way up to 28°, which is a major improvement over 22°. Forties today, fifties tomorrow and Saturday, sixties on Sunday and seventies on Monday. I like that trend. Still laboring at the work in progress. … Continue reading