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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Squeal like a zombie
I solved another problem with my message board that means I won’t be so hasty to migrate to new software, which takes a load of work off my plate. The main problem with the YaBB board (other than its habit … Continue reading
Beginnings
My message board appears to be offline today. I’m not quite sure what the issue is. If it doesn’t resolve itself by tomorrow, I will explore further. I have been planning to replace this old, clunky Perl board with a … Continue reading
Probably a happy ending
Switched reading gears to a couple of short story collections. I started Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake collection yesterday and read about 1/5 of Rage Against the Night, the benefit anthology for Rocky Wood. Got as far as my own story, which I read … Continue reading
It takes a village to run a house
I spent an hour on Skype yesterday with Lou Sytsma and Hans-Åke Lilja being interviewed for their next podcast. We talked about a variety of subjects and I believe the material will be used for two podcasts. This is the … Continue reading
The sound they make
Issue #66 of Cemetery Dance magazine is at the printer and will ship in April. In addition to my usual column, I wrote the feature review of The Wind Through the Keyhole. The review got top billing on the magazine … Continue reading
The Night Comes Down, electronically
Including my session this morning, I estimate that I spent 30 hours working on the manuscript this weekend. Productive work, too. The thing is getting close to the point where I can print it out for the first time and … Continue reading
They pull me back in again
Until last night, I’d never seen a single episode of The Sopranos. Last fall I bought the Season 1 DVD set and we just got around to sampling it now. We watched the first two episodes. Interesting. Tony’s mother is … Continue reading
Domesticated
I have today off from the day job. In addition to my usual writing duties, I’m doing some domestic chores: I prepared a batch of dough for the breadmaker and I’m making chicken soup from the carcass (love that word–it’s … Continue reading
Playing Tag — part 2
Part 2 of my interview with Mick Garris about Bag of Bones just went up at FEARNet. Check it out, along with another batch of never-before-seen photos from the miniseries and production.
Prepare to be boarded
My favorite character from Bloom County was Oliver Wendell Jones. He was the computer hacker who was always taking over corporate websites. He often dressed up like a pirate when he embarked on one of his missions. The predecessor to … Continue reading