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
I failed the test, didn’t I?
It’s been a productive writing week. I submitted one story last weekend, a substantial rewrite of an existing manuscript. Then I wrote and revised and submitted another story during the week. Finally, today I did a rewrite of a third … Continue reading
Fore!
I finished the first revision round on the WiP, reducing it from 4400 words to 4000 in the progress, which is pretty much par for the course. I tend to overwrite by about 10% in the first draft. Another day … Continue reading
Luck of the Irish
Finished the first draft of the WIP last night. Came in at about 4400 words and 14 pages. Did some extensive revision to the first five pages this morning, but didn’t cut more than a hundred words or so. Did … Continue reading
Another damned tree
Another one of those epiphany mornings when all of a sudden I saw the ending of a story that I’ve been having a bit of a struggle with. Can’t remember if I was in the shower or doing my calisthenics, … Continue reading
Give me a number. Thirteen.
Something you don’t ever want to hear a doctor say: “I’m just going to remove the top few layers of cells.” Not when the doctor is an optometrist and it’s a few layers of cells from the surface of your … Continue reading
A/C today, heater tomorrow?
It’s over 80° today, and humid, but that’s fixin’ to change tomorrow night, as they say around here. Down to 38° then and 30° on Friday night. We expect to do lots of cooking over the next few days. I … Continue reading
Aw, man!
Jorge Garcia was a guest star on How I Met Your Mother last night. He played “The Blitz,” an old college buddy of Ted and Marshall’s, a guy who always leaves just before something totally awesome happens. For the first … Continue reading
Needles and Pins
Another nice review of Thin Ice. It says, in part, “More than a few twisted endings will make the whole thing even more enjoyable. In particular, the first story, winner of the Al Blanchard Crime Fiction Award, The Bank Job … Continue reading
Only the Shadow knows
Just finished an interview about The Stephen King Illustrated Companion for an Italian publication. I expect it will get translated, so I’m looking forward to re-translating it to English to see what route my words take. I started Against All … Continue reading
The Tao of Maddy
I received a very nice check in the mail last night from my agent for the second printing of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. The neat thing about the way this project worked was that B&N bought all the copies … Continue reading