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: TV
You know things are bad when the heroin addict thinks you’re a bad influence
I had four things I wanted to get done this weekend, and I managed to complete them all, though it was later on Sunday than I’d planned when I put the finishing touches on #3. First off, I wrote two … Continue reading
I guess it all evens out
I now have a publicist for The Dark Tower Companion. He introduced himself to me via e-mail last night. He has a few extra galleys to send my way, so if anyone (USA only, alas) out there is a blogger/reviewer … Continue reading
Pixelated like Longfellow Deeds
With some feedback from a first reader, I finished and polished a new short story to submit to the Mystery Writers of America anthology. I’ve had success there once before, so I’m hoping lightning strikes again. This may be the … Continue reading
A 19th Century Weekend
I feel like we spent a good part of the weekend in the 19th century. No, the power didn’t go out. We went to two long movies, one set in 1864-1865 and the other between 1815 and 1832. We saw … Continue reading
Fringe festival
Yesterday morning we were greeted by pea soup. The kind of thick fog that we never get around here. On occasion, we’ll see fog down along the interstate corridor, or maybe in the trees, but yesterday is was so dense … Continue reading
Inferno
I didn’t get a lot of sympathy when I posted on FB that it was 28° when I was leaving for work this morning, but that’s the coldest it’s been here this winter. Sure, it gets up into the sixties … Continue reading
Got milk?
I finished the first draft of my new short story this morning. It’s only 2000 words, but I’m happy that it turned out pretty much the way I imagined it a couple of mornings ago. It still needs to be … Continue reading
It was a dark and stormy day
I started the short story I “dreamt up” yesterday morning. I wrote 450 words in a burst and thought I was done for the day. Then I wrote 500 more. One sign that a story is working for me, on … Continue reading
Hatufim
So far, 2013 has been relatively rainy. In a state that is often flirting with drought, that isn’t a bad thing. I wouldn’t have minded a pass on the rain last Saturday, when we spent much of the day helping … Continue reading
The revolution starts now
Over the Christmas break, I went through the page proofs for The Dark Tower Companion. Typically what you do with these is mark your changes in the rather spacious margins, photocopy any pages that have errors, and then send just … Continue reading