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
A buncha films
After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, the temperatures plummeted this weekend and we were under a freeze warning last night and again tonight. We had a very nice rainstorm over the long weekend, too. Both the cool weather and the … Continue reading
Starting with the weather
There’s an old writing adage that says: Never begin with the weather. This isn’t fiction, so I’ll begin with the weather. Except, I’m not beginning with the weather, I’m beginning by writing about writing about the weather. I’m so confused. … Continue reading
Tag, you’re it
It used to be that when I entered the company lottery for ham bones left over after our Thanksgiving lunch, I had a pretty good shot at winning one. If there were five available, usually eight or ten people entered … Continue reading
Asking questions
This month’s Storyteller’s Unplugged essay, Asking Questions, was inspired by my recent experiences interviewing people for a couple of projects. I spent 90 minutes on the phone with one interview subject yesterday. The results of my recent interview with Mick … Continue reading
The best medicine
A number of years ago, when I was visiting northern New Brunswick over the Christmas holidays, I took a drive up to Campbellton. On my return trip, I found CBC Radio and a program I’d never heard before: The Vinyl … Continue reading
Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
A Pair of Kangaroos
I recently agreed to be interviewed by a college undergrad for one of her classes. Their assignment was to interview someone working in a career that interested them. Since that interview won’t see the light of day outside of the … Continue reading
Gus is always 10 steps ahead
My essay Whatever happened to Danny Torrance? is now up at FEARNet. Check it out. It has a link to the full video of Stephen King’s appearance at George Mason University, where he reads from Dr. Sleep. I’ve been slowly getting caught … Continue reading
A tiny little psychopath in Capri pants
The temperature starts going down again day by day this week. By the weekend we could be down to just over 90°. The 20% chance of rain for Friday is now down to 10%. More fires in the area, too. … Continue reading
Nothing flashed red
A hundred and two today. Twenty percent chance of rain later on in the week. Good times. My wife had jury duty yesterday and ended up in the first row of a panel being considered for a murder trial. That … Continue reading