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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Law and Disorder
NBC doesn’t impinge on my eyeballs very often. In fact, I think I’m telling the truth when I say that the only NBC shows I watch are Law & Order (the mothership) and Law & Order: SVU. Well, it looks … Continue reading
Timber!
In the fall of 1967, the building that was at the time called the Civic Center in Pittsburgh hosted its first hockey game. The combatants that night were the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Montreal Canadiens. Over four decades later, on … Continue reading
Mom loved you best
I received an interesting proposal via e-mail yesterday, a chance to be in front of a TV camera for the first time. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s the first time. First time the camera will be aimed deliberately at … Continue reading
Think of the children
I started Broken by Karin Slaughter this weekend. I read the first two or three of her Grant County books, but I’ve missed some, so I have to catch up with past events. Fortunately, Slaughter does a very good job … Continue reading
Alert the Quantum Lords
Two evictions on Survivor last night–and Rupert’s still there. I thought for sure he was a lame duck early on, what with his broken toe and all, but he’s managed to avoid the chopping block time and time again. He … Continue reading
Aw, hell
It seems like we went straight from heating the house to having to cool it down. We got through most of April without any indoor climate control, but I know we had to turn the heat on at least once … Continue reading
I saved a life this morning
Earlier this year, I took a day-long course at work that gave me the credentials of an emergency first responder. Since then, my colleagues and I have jokingly asked each other if we’ve saved anyone yet. There was an incident at … Continue reading
Respect the Thing
Not many goaltenders are tall enough to strike that particular pose, which Ken Dryden made famous in the 1970s when he appeared from nowhere and led the Montreal Canadiens to a Stanley Cup or five. He was unique in so … Continue reading
Dem Bones
Finally got caught up on the Thursday night shows I missed while we were in New York. I wasn’t happy with the outcome of Survivor. I was hoping the heroes could turn the tables and even the score with the … Continue reading
And the winner is…
We’re back from a whirlwind trip to Manhattan for the Edgar Award banquet. We flew out on Thursday morning and encountered our first and only real bump in the road when the pilot had to reboot the entire airplane before … Continue reading