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
Another quiet night in the Hotel California
I received my copy of the hardbound omnibus of American Vampire last night. I’ve only read the first installment until now because the local shop stopped carrying the series for a while. I still find that I have a hard … Continue reading
How’s the dog?
The Evolve author/editor chat at Bitten By Books is still going on until noon tomorrow. Drop by and ask one or all of us questions and enter the contest to win valuable prizes. (Real valuable prizes, not NECON valuable prizes.) … Continue reading
This is not Woody Allen
Join editor Nancy Kilpatrick and authors from Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (including me) tomorrow on the Bitten by Books online launch event from noon central on Wednesday, through to noon central on Thursday. Post your question for … Continue reading
I didn’t think he’d be first
I was going to start Elmore Leonard’s new novel, Djibouti, next, but I decided to breeze through the new Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker first, Painted Ladies. I have it on my Kindle and read the first 1/3 of … Continue reading
Tie me kangaroo down, sport
I ordered a kangaroo yesterday. Yes, indeed. No, it’s not some sort of exotic drink like a Wallaby Darned, although ordering a wallaby was an option. I’ve been on a quest to find a reasonably affordable sit-stand desk adapter. Something … Continue reading
My former self
I finally pulled the trigger on the short story in progress this morning. I read it through aloud last night, made a few minor touch-up changes, keyed them in this morning and shipped it off to the market. I was … Continue reading
Currying favor
Another round of revisions on the story in progress. Still not quite ready to send it off. Maybe tomorrow, if I get a chance to read it through completely this evening. The relationship between Gibbs and FBI agent Tobias Fornell … Continue reading
Any questions
Didn’t get the short story out the door like I planned. I started working my way through it one more time and made quite a few changes. Then when I was doing my morning calisthenics I came up with a … Continue reading
The new hot profession: Cleaner
I think I have the short ( now shorter) story ready to submit in the morning. It ended up at 5300 words. I think I might add a few back in and give it one last read-through. Then it’s on … Continue reading
Meep! Meep!
I got down within striking distance of my target word count for the work in progress. Somewhere just north of 5500 words. I have nearly a hundred words of purple prose marked for possible deletion, too. Literally purple. I colored … Continue reading