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
The Tao of Maddy
I received a very nice check in the mail last night from my agent for the second printing of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. The neat thing about the way this project worked was that B&N bought all the copies … Continue reading
Crossing swords
I’m getting ready to leave for the airport to fly to Boston, where I will be attending Crime Bake for the next couple of days. I’ll report on it when I get back, and will probably post tweets if the … Continue reading
Very well groomed for a crazy person
Knopf is releasing the Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set just in time for Christmas. Nice looking unjacketed, clothbound boxed set of Stieg Larsson’s bestsellers. Accompanying the set is a fourth book, On Stieg Larsson, which the publisher was kind enough … Continue reading
These are not taxi doors
I finished my review of Djibouti by Elmore Leonard and posted it on Onxy Reviews. I’m still reading Bad Boy by Peter Robinson. Next up is Against All Things Ending, the third of four volumes in the Final Chronicles of … Continue reading
Bartleby
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Ch-ch-ch-changes went live yesterday. In it I discuss my general resistance to changing something that I’ve used for a long time and my plans to try out a new writing program called Scrivener for my revisions … Continue reading
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
I ordered a kangaroo yesterday. Yes, indeed. No, it’s not some sort of exotic drink like a Wallaby Darned, although ordering a wallaby was an option. I’ve been on a quest to find a reasonably affordable sit-stand desk adapter. Something … Continue reading
Meep! Meep!
I got down within striking distance of my target word count for the work in progress. Somewhere just north of 5500 words. I have nearly a hundred words of purple prose marked for possible deletion, too. Literally purple. I colored … Continue reading
The Usual Insanity
Yesterday and today, the heat index hovered around 100°. It’s already hot when we get up in the morning. Thankfully, a cold front is coming through this weekend that means we’ll see overnight temps in the low 60s and a … Continue reading