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: Mentalist
Which way is out?
We had a stretch of fence between us and our neighbors replaced this week. It included a gate. When the workers were finishing up we went to survey the results. Fenced looked good, but the gate was installed backwards! The … Continue reading
It’s there, then it’s gone
Finished up revisions to the second short story that I had to proof this week and got it back to the editor. That’s probably about as much writing work as I’ll get done today. Got some very good news from … Continue reading
What do you do when you lose? Party harder!
I was in high school the year of the incident at Three Mile Island. Though it was all over the news at the time, it seemed a long ways off. Over a thousand miles, in fact. However, at the end … 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
Gold in them thar hills
Another editing pass through the work in progress. Trimmed by an additional 200 words. I’ll probably send it out tomorrow. For a long time I’ve had a story on the short list for consideration for inclusion in Thrillers 3, the … Continue reading
Make sure they spell my name right
Almost finished doing the taxes and looking forward to a refund, which is always nice. Listening to Split Enz and getting ready for a productive day of writing. The plan: finish first draft of short story, revise proposal, get two … Continue reading
Brief notes
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down from Mario Guslandi at Horror World. I’ll answer to Ben, if you like. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in Ottawa sometime last year to get copies of one of my uncle’s … Continue reading
Where was the flux capacitor?
I wrote a 600-word short story this morning for NPR’s three-minute stories competition. I only found out about it a few days ago, thanks to someone’s link on Facebook, and it took me until today to come up with an … Continue reading
Assault
I wrote a 3000-word short story beginning to end this weekend. I’ve been contemplating the story for weeks, and I even made a false start of a few pages on it a while back, but I finally figured out what … Continue reading
See Forever Eyes
Rejection letters still burn. After all this time. They suck. Oh, well. Something to submit elsewhere this weekend. I have to put steroid eye drops into my left eye four times a day for the next three days and three … Continue reading