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: NCIS
NCIS on a couch
I wrote another 600 words on the WiP this morning, then realized after I finished where the story really wanted to go. The realization means that I need to go back and revamp most of what I’ve already written, because … Continue reading
Puzzling
It’s amazing how warm 32° feels compared to 21°. The latter is the temperature reading on my car’s dashboard when I got to work this morning and the former is the reading when I got back from thy gym at … Continue reading
A Class Act
I love talking to my agent. I always feel inspired and motivated after I get off the phone with him. He always has time for me, and it’s not unusual for our conversations to go on for the better part … Continue reading
From Socrates to Snookie
According to CNN, as of this morning there was snow on the ground in all fifty states except Florida. And, yes, that includes Hawaii, the meteorologist clarified, as if someone might speculate that Hawaii wasn’t one of the fifty. Our … Continue reading
Shortlisted
Several weeks ago I wrote a 350 word story for the New Scientist 2010 flash fiction contest, which had the theme Forgotten futures. Stories about futures that never were. Alternate history, in other words. I found out two weeks ago … Continue reading
A/C today, heater tomorrow?
It’s over 80° today, and humid, but that’s fixin’ to change tomorrow night, as they say around here. Down to 38° then and 30° on Friday night. We expect to do lots of cooking over the next few days. I … Continue reading
The truth is out there
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Contests? No Contest is now live for your reading enjoyment. There’s a new review of On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association at Famous Monsters of Filmland today. The book continues to sell … Continue reading
Three-headed grandchild
Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Online research tells me that it is our crystal anniversary, which is appropriate enough for a crystallographer. Just a few days after the anniversary of the discovery of X-ray, too. Appropriate enough for an … Continue reading
Drive by. Nearly deported. This is just Day 1.
One of my Canadian cousins contacted me via Facebook today to say that he was watching the Biography Channel’s Stephen King episode that I was interviewed for earlier this year. It’s an update to the previous biography, which was about … Continue reading
Currying favor
Another round of revisions on the story in progress. Still not quite ready to send it off. Maybe tomorrow, if I get a chance to read it through completely this evening. The relationship between Gibbs and FBI agent Tobias Fornell … Continue reading