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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Alex calling
Tropical Storm–and soon-to-be-hurricane–Alex is churning things up down in the gulf. It’s probably going to come ashore near the Texas-Mexico border, but we’re on the wet side of the storm so we’re probably going to see some heavy rains over … Continue reading
Paradox
On Saturday I went to ApolloCon for several hours. Met up with Michael Bracken, Bill Crider, Lee Thomas, Gabrielle Faust and a guy who looked like Brian Keene wearing a kilt. The con is a little different than a horror … Continue reading
More stories
One thing that has intrigued me about this whole McChrystal affair is that I saw a segment on him on Sixty Minutes several months ago and I came away from the piece thinking that he was an interesting guy who … Continue reading
The Mighty Pen
I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 after yesterday’s post. Every now and then I follow the warnings and do a full backup of my site before I push the automatic installation button, but mostly I just push the button and hope … Continue reading
Underhenge
I’m surprised that I haven’t heard many people talking about the new anthology Stories: All-New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. I bought it for my Kindle last week and the stories thus far have been uniformly very … Continue reading
Turtleneck Season
My essay “The Tangled Web We Weave” is now up on Storytellers Unplugged. It’s about the work involved in adding something significant to a novel between drafts. I received my copies of Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and … Continue reading
The Grand Illusion
If you want to check out Sarah Mclachlan’s new album, Laws of Illusion, before buying it, you can listen to the whole thing for free at music.aol.com today. Also Tom Petty’s Mojo, and a number of other albums. I found … Continue reading
Luck of the Irish
I finished The Passage this weekend and am working on my review. My biggest fear about the book is that it would end on a cliff-hanger without any sense of resolution. I wasn’t disappointed with the way the novel wrapped … Continue reading
Writer’s cramp
Every word we write is born out of our blood and sweat. No, not really, but that’s what we would like people to think. The odd looking device pictured here is a pen that…wait for it…allows you to write with … Continue reading
Hell, yeah, it’s the humidity
At 7:45 this morning it was 80°, which is manageable. However, with the humidity it felt like it was about 108°. Stifling is the word that comes to mind. Sultry is another. Happy Town returns tonight for its series burn-off. … Continue reading