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: The Closer
Narrative lapses and shortcuts
We’ll see how long this lasts. I finally received a car magnet supporting my candidates of choice. As some of you may know, this is the first time I’ve been able to vote in a presidential election. I’ve even contributed … Continue reading
Down the rabbit hole
I sort of relaxed and got caught up on things over the long weekend. Does signing ~1000 signature sheets count as relaxing? I did them while watching recorded TV shows, so it wasn’t too taxing. They’re for the revised and … Continue reading
56 and counting
I finished Phantom by Jo Nesbø on Sunday. (How exactly do you pronounce “ø”?”) A complex, gritty, dark, violent Norwegian crime novel. From there I moved on to The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin. Good to be back in that world … Continue reading
Golf in the Gulf
We don’t have a beach house, but we have the next best thing: a rental house on the beach that we’ve been going to for the past several years. It feels a little like a time-share, but we don’t have … Continue reading
The heat is on
I was on light writing duty this weekend. I finished the first draft of my next column for Cemetery Dance, but that’s about it. I’m still thinking deeply about the next short story I want to write, but for some … Continue reading
In the Crowd
My essay Faces in the Crowd is now up at FEARNet. It tracks the evolution of King’s new short story collaboration with Stewart O’Nan, “A Face in the Crowd,” essentially from the moment King got the idea in 2004 until … Continue reading
Fear the Reaper
The website for Nancy Kilpatrick’s Danse Macabre anthology is now online. I received my contributor copy last week, and the book will launch at World Fantasy in Toronto. My contribution is “Therapy,” which won the final Wee Small Hours contest … Continue reading
Better living through chemistry
My August contribution to Storytellers Unplugged is called Writing in My Head, and it’s now live. I’ve been suffering with lower back pain for a couple of years. I say “pain,” because that’s the standard term, but it’s really a … Continue reading
The two are very close, but they never actually touch
I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning. It’s called “Writing In My Head,” and was inspired by a blog I read in the NY Times. It will appear on Friday morning. I’m on the verge of starting a new … Continue reading
Written in bacon
I’ve been on a book review binge these past several days. I was getting behind so I decided to put everything else aside and clean the stack off the floor next to my desk that’s been nagging at me. Here … Continue reading