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: Torchwood
HNY
My first post of 2015. Happy New Year one and all. Turbulent events abroad, so maybe not so happy for everyone, alas. It would be hard to pick a day when that wasn’t true, though. Our first strong blast of … Continue reading
Lard-Ass Hogan…in space
If you missed out on the HWA round table last night, “The Continuing Impact of Stephen King,” there’s still time to take part. The page will remain open for the next few days and the four contributors (Douglas E. Winter, … Continue reading
Two trips to Berlin in one weekend
Got a lot of work done on the work in progress. Crossed the 15,000 word threshold this morning. Better than I anticipated. The heat has returned and we’re scheduled to reach or surpass 100° over the next few days. No … Continue reading
Of course Roland drives an Infiniti
My social networking has slowed down lately. I’ve been lax about updating this blog, I spend almost no time on Facebook and I’ve completely ignored Google+ after signing up for it. Twitter is about the only medium that I’m keeping … Continue reading
I weep for Titan
Today is my last day as the “older man,” for a while. Tomorrow my wife joins me in the fifties. Will one of her gifts be a rainstorm? Remains to be seen. They keep promising rain, but then they back … Continue reading
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
Colin Maloney’s bad day
I finished most of what I set out to do this weekend. The one thing I didn’t do was go see Cowboys & Aliens. I was going to do a doubleheader with Rise of the Planet of the Apes but … 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
The godfather
Remember all that rainfall we haven’t received over the past nine months? The drought? The sixteen inch deficit for 2011 to date? There’s a decent chance we might make up most of it later on this week. It’s early days, … Continue reading
The old man is snoring
Another two editing passes through the new short story this morning. One pass usually ends up being a “flow” revision, where I suddenly discover that everything is okay, but it’s all in the wrong order. I move paragraphs around. I … Continue reading