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 Walking Dead
The revolution starts now
Over the Christmas break, I went through the page proofs for The Dark Tower Companion. Typically what you do with these is mark your changes in the rather spacious margins, photocopy any pages that have errors, and then send just … Continue reading
Wettest. Drought. Ever.
I don’t think you’ll find anyone complaining amount the amount of rain we’ve received so far in 2012. Weather experts had been predicting a dry winter because of a La Niña pattern in the Pacific. 80% of the time that leads … Continue reading
Prepare to be boarded
Few things will wake you up as quickly in the morning as sitting down at your computer, which you’ve left on overnight, to find only a black screen. All the lights are on, but nobody’s home. I’m not sure what … Continue reading
A buncha films
After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, the temperatures plummeted this weekend and we were under a freeze warning last night and again tonight. We had a very nice rainstorm over the long weekend, too. Both the cool weather and the … Continue reading
Hop a Freighter
One thing I’ve discovered in the writing life: if you query a market about a long overdue submission, chances are you won’t get good news in return. The story in question was submitted to a specific issue of a magazine … Continue reading
Another damned tree
Another one of those epiphany mornings when all of a sudden I saw the ending of a story that I’ve been having a bit of a struggle with. Can’t remember if I was in the shower or doing my calisthenics, … Continue reading
Aw, man!
Jorge Garcia was a guest star on How I Met Your Mother last night. He played “The Blitz,” an old college buddy of Ted and Marshall’s, a guy who always leaves just before something totally awesome happens. For the first … Continue reading
The truth is out there
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Contests? No Contest is now live for your reading enjoyment. There’s a new review of On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association at Famous Monsters of Filmland today. The book continues to sell … Continue reading
Bad things happen in darkness
Elton John no longer feels the need to make hit records. He’s had his long run, so now he can be self indulgent and do what he wants. So what happens with The Union? It’s his biggest hit in decades. … Continue reading
Another fun-filled day in the six counties
When it remembers how to rain around here, it does it up in style. We had heavy rains overnight on Sunday, and more again through the night last night. Badly needed. Maybe now I can stop watering the lawn. I … Continue reading