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 Killing
Movies and TV, oh my
We saw Jon Favreau’s new film, Chef, last weekend. A cute flick. Favreau wrote, directed and starred as the chef who works in a restaurant owned by Dustin Hoffman. He gets into a social media tiff with a food critic … Continue reading
Series come and series go
I finished revising the most recent short story and submitted it to the intended market. It’s one of those places that promises (and usually delivers on) fast responses, sometimes as short as 24 hours. Given that it’s been three days … Continue reading
Rory and the Doctor
The power went off at 8:45 last night. No big deal—I was about to turn in for the night anyway. We went out into the street to make sure it wasn’t just us. Met a couple of neighbors that we’ve … Continue reading
When 90 feels cool
That is a real capture of my weather app from my iPhone on Saturday afternoon. This is the first time in recorded history that Houston had a day over 105° in a month other than August. The humidity, at 24%, … Continue reading
The Horror
The day after tomorrow I’ll be on my way to New Orleans for the World Horror Convention. I should get there just in time for the opening ceremony, where I will be talking for a few minutes about the Grand … Continue reading
Little Orphan Sarah
It was fun seeing David Soul as a guest star on a Season 6 episode of Inspector Lewis. He played a visiting lecturer whose views on the genetic aspects of a criminal mind were controversial. It may be one of … Continue reading
Books, Movies and TV
It was 100° the day we arrived in San Francisco, the tail end of a heat wave, but it moderated quickly after that. Most days the temperature was in the seventies and it was in the forties at night, which … Continue reading
One card short of a full deck
My old message board seems to be toast. I moved it to a different server and it works there, so I can recover the data from it, but I can’t coax it into working on the existing server. I’m going … Continue reading
Therapy
This week’s episode of The Killing was actually pretty interesting. It’s neat how they’re borrowing scenes from the Danish version and making them their own. The bit where the evidence is floored over has an analog in the original, but … Continue reading
Seasons change
We had a very wet beginning to the year, but it didn’t take long for people to start thinking about drought again when it didn’t rain for a few weeks. We had a brief but loud thunderstorm in the middle … Continue reading