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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Ups and downs
Conducted business regarding three different short story submissions this weekend. On Friday I received the check for a story that will appear in the new market AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. I’m not exactly sure when it will be published, … Continue reading
Domesticity
Winter hasn’t loosed its hold on us yet. It was down to 38° last night, though it’s a pleasant 65° today. Down into the forties tonight, with highs in the sixties and seventies for the next several days. I can … Continue reading
Swimming with the fishes
I was pleased to hear back from the editor to whom I sent last week’s new short story this morning. Though the anthology in question is not a definite go yet, he liked the story enough to say that he … Continue reading
House and Justified for the win
I love it when people e-mail me out of the blue and offer to pay me money to do something. That doesn’t happen nearly often enough, but it’s very nice when it does. More on this later, if it works … Continue reading
The Fizzle of ’11
I was greatly disappointed this morning. I fully expected to open the blinds and gaze out upon a snowy white lawn, with snow clinging to the trees and adorning the roofs of our neighbors homes. Four inches, ideally, but one … Continue reading
The Blizzard of ’11
The worst recorded snowfall in Houston’s history likely occurred on Feb. 14 -15, 1895. In all, the city received about 20 inches of snow. (Click the photo for a larger version.) Measurable amounts of snow would not be recorded again … Continue reading
Continuing Evolution
Instead of plowing forward with the work in progress this morning, I did an editing pass on the 3000 words I have already. The story was written in an odd manner, so I wanted to make sure it held together. … Continue reading
Ya gets what’s ya pays for
Did some work on the short story this weekend. It now sits at 3000 words. I figure it will be 6000 by the time I finish the first draft and perhaps 5000 by the time I’m done editing it. Texas … Continue reading
As nutty as…
My new Storytellers Unplugged essay is up. It’s called “Potpourri” for the simple reason that it’s a meandering, stream-of-consciousness hodgepodge without a point. I was really stumped for a topic this month, so I opted for a State of the … Continue reading
Hard Freeze
With my most urgent deadline met, I spent the morning writing session today catching up on email. I’m one of the judges of a fiction contest this year, so there was correspondence pertaining to that that needed my attention, plus a bunch … Continue reading