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
Blue eyes
Made some serious forward progress on the novella this morning, jumping from just under 4000 words to a tad over 6000 by the end of my session. Not all of them are new words, exactly. Since I’m revamping an old, … Continue reading
You call that a gun?
Working my way back into the novella by reading over and editing what I’ve already written. Tomorrow I should be able to tackle new material. I’ve been cutting mercilessly so far. I’m hoping that it will be a very lean … Continue reading
Which way is out?
We had a stretch of fence between us and our neighbors replaced this week. It included a gate. When the workers were finishing up we went to survey the results. Fenced looked good, but the gate was installed backwards! The … Continue reading
Pick the devil you run with
Two or three weeks ago I received a letter from Elections Canada telling me I was being dropped from the registration list. Two days ago I received my voting package for the forthcoming election. Mixed message? Do I dare vote? … Continue reading
How could I get that wrong?
Broke my promise to myself: I didn’t get around to working on the novella this morning. I got my “assignments” for World Horror in Austin in a few weeks so I had to do some prep work. The program hasn’t … Continue reading
Femme fatale
Got tangled up with paperwork this morning, so I didn’t get back to the novella yet again. Tomorrow, I promise (myself). After several days with the A/C activated and actually having it run a few times, we had to turn … Continue reading
Who Killed Rosie Larsen?
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review published my short story Matthias Comes Home From the War today. AE is a relatively new pro-paying market and I’m very happy to help the launch their third issue. Didn’t do much writing this … Continue reading
It’s there, then it’s gone
Finished up revisions to the second short story that I had to proof this week and got it back to the editor. That’s probably about as much writing work as I’ll get done today. Got some very good news from … Continue reading
Blew By You
Ended up having to proof two short stories. I received the proofs of “Red Planet” for Evolve 2 yesterday as well as the other story I mentioned previously. I got one of them finished and back to the editor this … Continue reading
A Star is Born
Spent the entire morning session vetting editorial comments for a short story that will be published shortly. Quite a lot of tracked changes, most of which I’m okay with, but I need to make sure that the few deletions don’t … Continue reading