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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Did you get pears?
It rained this morning, if by “rain” I mean a little bit of water fell from the sky and a few things got vaguely moist. After a soggy July, we’ve had effectively no rain thus far in August. The local … Continue reading
Working in a Coal Mine
No better way to start the day than with a short story acceptance letter! My tale “Centralia is Still Burning” will appear in Specters in Coal Dust, edited by Michael Knost. I asked Michael at World Horror this year if … Continue reading
Playing with fire
I finished my revisions on the short story I’ve been rewriting for the past couple of weeks. Found a market for it, prepared the submission package and I’ll get it in the mail sometime this weekend. The last time I … Continue reading
Consulting Criminal
When I was at World Horror in Brighton earlier this year, Derek Clendening interviewed me about the Evolve anthology. He also interviewed Nancy Kilpatrick and a passel of other contributors. The end result is The Evolution of the Modern Vampire: A … Continue reading
Playing God
My favorite bit of TV dialog in recent memory came from a scene near the end of last night’s The Closer. “Who gave you the right to play God?” Brenda asked a perp. “The position was vacant, so I took … Continue reading
Writery stuff
I signed a contract last night for a forthcoming anthology appearance, but I still can’t really talk about it until the fall. I’m very pleased that it all worked out in the long run. I also got the green light … Continue reading
I’m your ghost
When I get busy, my blog gets ignored. Thus I find myself in the unusual position of not having written anything here for nearly a week. Gasp. However did the world survive? Quite well, I guess. Last weekend we watched … Continue reading
Second Unit
Toronto, combined with some nice second unit photography, did a very serviceable job of passing for Zurich, Switzerland on this week’s episode of Covert Affairs. There were the requisite shots of the airport and of the churches along the lake, and … Continue reading
Worst crime scene security ever
After a short story was rejected recently, I decided to take a look at it before sending it out, a sort of semi-annual checkup, and I was shocked and appalled by how heavy handed it was. The story was 3500 … Continue reading
Crossing the Rubicon
Suffering from a summer cold this weekend. It started out with a scratchy throat—a familiar warning symbol. Then my voice turned basso profundo. It’s amazing how little it takes to throw me off my writing schedule. Sore throat and phlegmy … Continue reading