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
Some people are immune to good advice
It is surprisingly difficult to deem a short story “finished” and to send it out into the world. My writing progress for the weekend consisted of taking a 4300 word short story and turning it into a 4000 word story. … Continue reading
Lard-Ass Hogan…in space
If you missed out on the HWA round table last night, “The Continuing Impact of Stephen King,” there’s still time to take part. The page will remain open for the next few days and the four contributors (Douglas E. Winter, … Continue reading
Rory and the Doctor
The power went off at 8:45 last night. No big deal—I was about to turn in for the night anyway. We went out into the street to make sure it wasn’t just us. Met a couple of neighbors that we’ve … Continue reading
W.H.O. Doctor
The heat index for today is 110° and it will apparently be like this all week. It is August, after all, and Texas. So it’s pretty much what one would expect. We watched a good film this weekend, a BBC … Continue reading
When 90 feels cool
That is a real capture of my weather app from my iPhone on Saturday afternoon. This is the first time in recorded history that Houston had a day over 105° in a month other than August. The humidity, at 24%, … Continue reading
The Horror
The day after tomorrow I’ll be on my way to New Orleans for the World Horror Convention. I should get there just in time for the opening ceremony, where I will be talking for a few minutes about the Grand … Continue reading
Little Orphan Sarah
It was fun seeing David Soul as a guest star on a Season 6 episode of Inspector Lewis. He played a visiting lecturer whose views on the genetic aspects of a criminal mind were controversial. It may be one of … Continue reading
More boldness
I had a four day weekend and very little of it was spent writing, alas. I did put up a couple of book reviews. CD gave me the green light to post my review of King’s Joyland, which will also … Continue reading
We boldly went
Note: There will be spoilers herein for Doctor Who and Star Trek, all below the horizontal lines. Didn’t get a lot of writing done this weekend. We took Saturday off. Had a business meeting in the morning that lasted longer … Continue reading
To Boldly Go
My new Storytellers Unplugged essay was posted today. It’s called Bartleby and Me and it talks about my early forays into the world of the word processing and workspace management program Scrivener. Alas, I haven’t had as much time as … Continue reading