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
What do you call a duel between three people? A trial?
With World Horror less than a week today, there’s lots of business to do to keep me busy (and away from writing as much as I’d like). I’ll be leaving for Austin on Wednesday to get there in time for … Continue reading
We all scream
I added another thousand words to the novella this morning, reaching 7000, but I think I’ve hit the breaking-off point. The old storyline isn’t going to serve me for this version so I’m ditching the rest of it and going … Continue reading
Pick the devil you run with
Two or three weeks ago I received a letter from Elections Canada telling me I was being dropped from the registration list. Two days ago I received my voting package for the forthcoming election. Mixed message? Do I dare vote? … Continue reading
A Star is Born
Spent the entire morning session vetting editorial comments for a short story that will be published shortly. Quite a lot of tracked changes, most of which I’m okay with, but I need to make sure that the few deletions don’t … Continue reading
Is there a doctorate in the house?
I don’t often write about personal things on this blog, but an exception needs to be made here. Yesterday afternoon I attended my wife’s doctoral dissertation defense. It was the culmination of a number of years of hard, hard work. … Continue reading
Tales to warm your heart
I have very little Irish blood in me. Most of it is Scottish and English. A dollop of French. However, growing up in Canada, I was blessed with an abundance of Irish and Scottish music. The Irish Rovers, who were … Continue reading
Elvis has left the building
I’m a news junkie under normal circumstances. I can easily get lost for hours reading online newspapers or watching CNN, though more of the former than the latter. I’m still a big fan of the print media, even if that … Continue reading
History in the making?
Last night, I proofed the essay I’ve been working on and made only a handful of minor changes. This morning, after I keyed them in, I went through it one last time on-screen and deleted things that didn’t seem necessary, … Continue reading
It’s all just math
Did some more work on the essay I’m writing for a horror movie magazine. I hope to have a pretty decent first draft done by the end of the weekend. My buddy Dave from Overlook Connection sent me one of … Continue reading
Gold in them thar hills
Another editing pass through the work in progress. Trimmed by an additional 200 words. I’ll probably send it out tomorrow. For a long time I’ve had a story on the short list for consideration for inclusion in Thrillers 3, the … Continue reading