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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Weirdness
They keep threatening us with rain. I’d say “promising,” except it rarely comes to pass. Today it looks like most of the showers are going east of us. That’s okay for them—they need it as badly as we do. There … Continue reading
Ruminations on writing
My Storytellers Unplugged essay went live this morning. It’s called Are you ready? Well, then, let’s begin, and it talks about what it takes for me to be ready to begin working on a short story. We watched three more … Continue reading
Oh, say can you see
Here’s what the weather forecast looks like for the next four days: 101°/76° | 101°/76° | 101°/74° | 101°/74°. Chance of rain: 0%. We are now 15″ behind on annual rainfall to date. When you boil hockey down to the basics, it’s … Continue reading
Days are numbers
If we had six fingers on each hand and had adopted a base-12 numbering system, today I would be 42. In binary, I’m 110010. Yes, it’s one of those dreaded “significant” birthdays. The kind that ends in a zero. And, no, … Continue reading
Paging Madam Chairman
The long weekend is over and I feel like I got a lot accomplished. We cooked some great meals on the grill, though it was two flocking hot to eat outside (flocking is a euphemism I picked up from the … Continue reading
Ain’t nobody here but us…
Wrote another thousand words of the story in progress and I have the rest all mapped out in my head except for one piece. One connection that the detective has to make and act on before the big reveal at … Continue reading
Solved the mystery
One advantage of being in a drought: you don’t have to mow the lawn. At all. I mowed it once back in March or April to get rid of the shaggy look it had acquired over the course of the … Continue reading
WHC 2011 is History: Part 2
In the elevator on Saturday morning I found myself saying that I was on my way to a panel on how to kill people. Only at World Horror could you say something like that and not attract strange looks. The … Continue reading
WHC 2011 is history: PART 1
I drove to Austin a little less than a week ago to attend World Horror 2011. I got on the road around 9 a.m. because I had to pick up Guest of Honor Joe Hill at the Austin airport shortly … Continue reading
Tea for two (thousand)
Finally making some real headway on the novella in progress after some serious renovations. So far I changed it from first person to third person, changed that person from a woman to a man and gave him a sidekick because … Continue reading