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
Done listening to dead men
One of the fun things about traveling is the pot-luck you get with change in airport concessions. After my trip to Boston I discovered that instead of a nickel I’d received a 5 centavos coin from Ecuador. I wrote and … Continue reading
The truth is out there
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Contests? No Contest is now live for your reading enjoyment. There’s a new review of On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association at Famous Monsters of Filmland today. The book continues to sell … Continue reading
Two Beavers Are Better Than One
My interview at Level Best Books went up today. Check it out. I talk a bit about setting stories in New England and about writing in general. Isn’t that one of the most handsome covers you’ve ever seen? I think … Continue reading
Crossing swords
I’m getting ready to leave for the airport to fly to Boston, where I will be attending Crime Bake for the next couple of days. I’ll report on it when I get back, and will probably post tweets if the … Continue reading
Three-headed grandchild
Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Online research tells me that it is our crystal anniversary, which is appropriate enough for a crystallographer. Just a few days after the anniversary of the discovery of X-ray, too. Appropriate enough for an … Continue reading
Bad things happen in darkness
Elton John no longer feels the need to make hit records. He’s had his long run, so now he can be self indulgent and do what he wants. So what happens with The Union? It’s his biggest hit in decades. … Continue reading
Adventures in Modern Recording
I got my new iPod rebuilt this weekend. Took a while to restore over 6000 songs and make sure the album graphics were there, too. I know I could have skipped that step but I figured if I was going … Continue reading
Very well groomed for a crazy person
Knopf is releasing the Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set just in time for Christmas. Nice looking unjacketed, clothbound boxed set of Stieg Larsson’s bestsellers. Accompanying the set is a fourth book, On Stieg Larsson, which the publisher was kind enough … Continue reading
As the SVU turns
I’ve been using my Kangaroo for two weeks. Time is zipping by so fast I thought it was only one week, but when I checked back on my earlier blogs I set myself straight. The Kangaroo is a desktop adjustable … Continue reading
Another fun-filled day in the six counties
When it remembers how to rain around here, it does it up in style. We had heavy rains overnight on Sunday, and more again through the night last night. Badly needed. Maybe now I can stop watering the lawn. I … Continue reading