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: Rubicon
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
It’s only bullets whistling by
Rubicon ended with a whimper, not a bang. And I really thought we’d hear that bang, or something like one. We still have no indication whether or not the series will be renewed for a second season, so there are … 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
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
Waiting for Godot
Halfway through the second pass, I trimmed another two hundred words from the story I’m trying to reduce to approximately 5000 words, getting me to 6700 from the original 9600. I think I can make it, but I foresee the … Continue reading
She’s an astronaut
Nobody would ever mistake me for a rabid football fan, but I do watch a game from time to time when there’s nothing else on television and I’m looking for some background noise while I do other things. I watched … Continue reading
Before that lady chopped off his foot
This past weekend was the first monthly meeting of the Candlelight Writers Group, a name we picked pretty much on the spot, after some more colorful and politically scandalous suggestions didn’t gain the required traction. The group consists of David Liss, … Continue reading