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
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Shaping stories
I’m really enjoying this new short story I’m working on. I’m coming at it from all angles and writing it in a non-linear fashion. I don’t feel like I’m spinning it out from beginning to end. Instead, it feels like … Continue reading
Coulda been a contender
The score was 17-13 at half time. I had to run to the grocery store for a few essentials. I figured I could do it without missing any of the game; however, by the time I got back, the third … Continue reading
The one thing needful
I met Peter David at Jekyll & Hyde in New York City in 2006. I was in the city on a family vacation. One of our few pre-scheduled events was a trip to Radio City Music Hall for “Harry, Carrie … Continue reading
Talk talk talk
Back to reality today. The notion of not shaving for over a week seems like a good idea at the time, until the day of reckoning and all that growth (scary how grey it is!) has to go. After the … Continue reading
The year in review
Goodbye to 2012, which was a pretty good year, and hello to 2013, which already has one thing going for it: it’s the first year since 1987 where all four digits are unique. On the reading front, I started 76 … Continue reading
And nobody came
The cold front arrived in full force this morning. It was 28° when I got up, and I heard there was snow in north Texas, as much as 2-5″. None here, of course. I finished tidying up an interview I … Continue reading
Crazy diamonds
While I was working on my computer upgrade yesterday, I watched The Story of Wish You Were Here, which began its life as a VH1 rockumentary or some such and is now available on DVD. It’s a fascinating look at the … Continue reading
Longmire with an ‘e’
After my overexposure to sun last week while riding around in northern California with the top down on our rental convertible, I’ve gone through three distinct stages of peeling. (Too much information? I find it fascinating!). First, there was my … Continue reading
Up, up and away
I’ve been away on vacation for the past week. Got back home around midnight last night after a week in northern California. Even though I took my iPad and had WiFi, it’s taking me a while to get caught up. … Continue reading
Death is a lonely business
Whenever people ask me who has influenced my writing, they’re generally surprised by my response. After waffling on about how everyone I ever read has contributed to my style and approach, I generally cite one author as the greatest influence, … Continue reading