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
I don’t like unpredictable
We’re still on target to have every day in August go over 100° and still mired in drought. We had rain last Sunday but nothing since then. Yesterday we broke the record for the number of triple digit days in … Continue reading
Tiny little woman in a Hyundai
My essay for Screem #23 came in at 6300 words in first draft. I’m 2/3 of the way through my first editing pass and it’s now down to 6050 words. I expect it will get tightened up a little more … Continue reading
Dead is Dead
Hot, hot, hotter than hot. And dry. But humid. Saps the energy out of you when you go outside. Long live A/C. Both The Closer and Rizzoli and Isles started with the disappearance of a young child. In both episodes, … Continue reading
Failing Murder 101
Seems more and more likely that Tropical Storm Don, also known in yesterday’s post as the godfather, will hit the coast well south of us. The local weather prognosticators have doubts that we’ll see any rain from the system at all. … Continue reading
Discovering the story
I’m about halfway through the new short story in progress and I just discovered what it’s really about. I often think I know what it’s about, but sometimes I figure out along the way that it’s actually about something else. … Continue reading
That 70s Castle Show
For several years, I’ve been trying to remember the title and author of a book I read in high school. I would get close, but it kept slipping away. I thought the author’s first name might be Eric and that … Continue reading
Shortlisted
Several weeks ago I wrote a 350 word story for the New Scientist 2010 flash fiction contest, which had the theme Forgotten futures. Stories about futures that never were. Alternate history, in other words. I found out two weeks ago … Continue reading