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
NCIS on a couch
I wrote another 600 words on the WiP this morning, then realized after I finished where the story really wanted to go. The realization means that I need to go back and revamp most of what I’ve already written, because … Continue reading
Did the butler do it?
Here we go again. A nice, sunny day, highs in the fifties. Not summer weather by any stretch of the imagination, but I can go outside without needing a jacket. And then tomorrow we get hit with an 80% chance … Continue reading
Brief notes
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down from Mario Guslandi at Horror World. I’ll answer to Ben, if you like. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in Ottawa sometime last year to get copies of one of my uncle’s … Continue reading
The Fizzle of ’11
I was greatly disappointed this morning. I fully expected to open the blinds and gaze out upon a snowy white lawn, with snow clinging to the trees and adorning the roofs of our neighbors homes. Four inches, ideally, but one … Continue reading
The Blizzard of ’11
The worst recorded snowfall in Houston’s history likely occurred on Feb. 14 -15, 1895. In all, the city received about 20 inches of snow. (Click the photo for a larger version.) Measurable amounts of snow would not be recorded again … Continue reading
Puzzling
It’s amazing how warm 32° feels compared to 21°. The latter is the temperature reading on my car’s dashboard when I got to work this morning and the former is the reading when I got back from thy gym at … Continue reading
To coin a word
Received my contributor copy of Dead Reckonings 8 on Friday. It contains my review of Dan Simmons’ Black Hills, which I submitted for issue 7 but got held over. Mildly chagrined by the conspicuous typo on the cover. I received … Continue reading
What happens in Vegas
Wrote 1000 words on the short story in progress this morning and have a very good idea of where it so going to go next and where it’s going after that. Not quite sure how it’s going to get wrapped … Continue reading
Not as seen on TV
Wrote the first 750 words of a new short story this morning after two false starts. It’s a little slow going because I’m still finding my way in this historical context, but it’s coming together. And there’s a positive omen: … Continue reading
Falling into place
Many inexplicable things take place during the writing process. That zone you get into when the story is just flowing out of you when you aren’t even stopping to think of what comes next, for example. For the past several … Continue reading