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: Survivor
The trailers were HOW loud?
My new essay went up on Storytellers Unplugged over the weekend. It’s called Promotional Consideration. We went to see Sherlock Holmes 2 yesterday. Other than the one for Iron Lady, the trailers had one thing in common: they were all … Continue reading
Angry birds are angry
I can’t remember a previous year when we had such a colorful and fall-like autumn. The leaves are yellow and red and they’re falling, just like they should. In a typical year, the leaves stay green or turn brown and … Continue reading
Glass ceiling, race and gender
My review of Bag of Bones, which airs on Sunday and Monday on A&E, just went up on FEARNet. The WiFi on my iPad seems to be working again. At least on a different network it is more stable, so … Continue reading
Asking questions
This month’s Storyteller’s Unplugged essay, Asking Questions, was inspired by my recent experiences interviewing people for a couple of projects. I spent 90 minutes on the phone with one interview subject yesterday. The results of my recent interview with Mick … Continue reading
The best medicine
A number of years ago, when I was visiting northern New Brunswick over the Christmas holidays, I took a drive up to Campbellton. On my return trip, I found CBC Radio and a program I’d never heard before: The Vinyl … Continue reading
Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
Rob lied!
It was a really nice weekend, and the same weather is continuing through this week. Temperate, low-eighties days and fifties nights. Wish it could stay like that all the time. We were able to eat outside on the back deck … Continue reading
Cue Supertramp music
We’ve had scattered showers twice in the last 18 hours. The forecasters weren’t optimistic, though, that the really big rainstorm would hit us. Then the radar showed this big ugly yellow band with a red front passing across San Antonio … Continue reading
Bad things are fixin’ to happen
The week after a con is always a busy one, just scrambling to get back to where I was before I left. I don’t think I’m going to get any writing done this week. I have to read about 40 … Continue reading
Enter Screeming
I’m back from World Horror in Austin. I’ll write more about the convention later when I can think straighter. Anyone who’s been to a conference like this will understand that there’s a certain amount of disorientation after returning to real … Continue reading