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
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Burden of … poof!
I finished Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale. Now reading Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. I didn’t know much about him until a recent 60 Minutes profile. I like reading books by people who are clearly smarter and more widely read … Continue reading
On the corner of black and white
Unexpectedly cool these past couple of days. Barely into the seventies and down to the low fifties at night. I know not many people will sympathize, but after a few days in the 80s when we had to run the … Continue reading
Penguin -> Peahen
Some days are lost to writing because you have to look after real life every now and then. Spent most of yesterday running around getting my car tended to. It’s not something I have to do very often, given that … Continue reading
A Flea in Her Ear
I skipped my morning writing session today. Didn’t plan to, but a few minutes before the alarm went off at 5 a.m. I reset it to 6:30. I normally catch up on sleep on the weekend but I have to … Continue reading
Is there a doctorate in the house?
I don’t often write about personal things on this blog, but an exception needs to be made here. Yesterday afternoon I attended my wife’s doctoral dissertation defense. It was the culmination of a number of years of hard, hard work. … Continue reading
Exit. Stage left.
Started working on the new/old novella in earnest this morning. I qualify it that way because, though it is starting from a broken novel that dates back a few years, it will end up being a lot different from that … Continue reading
There is hope in raindrops
Poked around at the novella renovation that I want to do next, but not much forward progress yet. Rewrote a couple of pages, updated them to a more contemporary setting and technology (the story was inspired by a very creepy … Continue reading
Do you remember the end of Jaws?
This morning, I started reading through the old work that I plan to renovate as a novella. It’s not going to look very much like it did in its original form, I believe. I posted my thoughts about Mystery by … Continue reading
Tales to warm your heart
I have very little Irish blood in me. Most of it is Scottish and English. A dollop of French. However, growing up in Canada, I was blessed with an abundance of Irish and Scottish music. The Irish Rovers, who were … Continue reading
What do you do when you lose? Party harder!
I was in high school the year of the incident at Three Mile Island. Though it was all over the news at the time, it seemed a long ways off. Over a thousand miles, in fact. However, at the end … Continue reading