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
So that’s what Gibbs has been building
I finally got around to starting to read Peter Straub’s novella “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” which will appear in Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue. As you may recall, Peter gave me the manuscript of this 16,000 word novella … Continue reading
There are no victories. There’s only the battle.
My new essay, Reading Slush, is up at Storytellers Unplugged. I’m really liking these scenes between Goran and the therapist played by Julia Ormond in the return of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. I especially liked the call out to … Continue reading
Rob lied!
It was a really nice weekend, and the same weather is continuing through this week. Temperate, low-eighties days and fifties nights. Wish it could stay like that all the time. We were able to eat outside on the back deck … Continue reading
Drum roll, please
The rainstorm yesterday afternoon was productive. About half an inch in some places. Enough to leave the front yard soggy. Not enough to end the drought. It’s supposed to be quite temperate this weekend. Lows in the fifties and highs … Continue reading
Cue Supertramp music
We’ve had scattered showers twice in the last 18 hours. The forecasters weren’t optimistic, though, that the really big rainstorm would hit us. Then the radar showed this big ugly yellow band with a red front passing across San Antonio … Continue reading
There’s always another monster
Last night was my wife’s graduation. She received a Ph. D. from the University of Texas School of Nursing at ceremonies held at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Now she’ll have a picture of her in a floppy beret … Continue reading
The father/daughter version of Grey Gardens
Slowly getting back to work on the novella that’s due at the end of the month. I’ve been doing more thinking about the story than writing, but that’s not a bad thing. Thinking is part of the writing process, after … Continue reading
The doctor is in
Summer is here. High of 92° today and very humid. Little chance of rain for the week. Drought now covering most of the state. Other places are getting more than their fair share of precipitation. Why can’t we? Sometimes I … Continue reading
Country Strong
I finished reading Other People We Married by Emma Straub this morning. Very well written literary stories, mostly about unhappy people in bad relationships who are on the verge of making decisions about how to change their situations. Reminded me a … Continue reading
The slush pile
I received my contributor copy of Screem magazine yesterday. Haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but I plan to this weekend. The editor has invited me to write for them again, so now I have … Continue reading