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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Nerves
I might have written this before, but when it came to the Bram Stoker Awards last month, I wasn’t nervous leading up to the presentation. I pretty much figured how it was going to go, and the adrenaline only kicked … Continue reading
Something in Store
I updated my online “store,” which has handy links to Amazon for my books and for anthologies that include my stories, including When the Night Comes Down, Evolve, Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, and Dead Set. I posted my … Continue reading
Time is not the boss of me
Ed Gorman kindly posted a Q&A with me on his Pro-File this weekend. In it I talk about the novel in progress, my experience selling my first book, pleasures and displeasures of a writing career, and I offer a little … Continue reading
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down was posted this weekend at Shroud Magazine’s website. I finished reading the other stories in the collection this weekend. It’s an interesting mix, with some fascinating crossovers of theme or concept … Continue reading
Falling feels like flying, for a little while
It was supposed to rain buckets today, but it turned out to be very nice. I have the office window open as I work, and the outside world is full of the sounds of lawn mowers and leaf blowers in their … Continue reading
There’s an app for that
Got back to my prep work on the novel in progress this morning after a 1-day hiatus. I’m thinking about charting the whole thing out on a big sheet of paper on my wall. Only problem is–my office doesn’t have … Continue reading
Em Are Eye
I just received my contributor copy of Close Encounter of the Urban Kind, edited by Jennifer Brozek. You should check it out if you get a chance — it’s about urban legends that actually have alien explanations. My tale is … Continue reading
Wildlife
I’m all set for my radio interview with KLVT on Monday morning. Alas, it does not appear that the station streams on the internet. My outlining and plotting proceed apace on the novel. I finished summarizing the plot of the … Continue reading
Outlining
On Saturday, my latest Storytellers Unplugged essay went live: The Agent Panel. It’s a recap of a panel at the Houston Writers Guild conference I attended a week or so ago. I finished and submitted the story I’ve been working … Continue reading
Looking for an agent?
Today on Storytellers Unplugged: The Agent Panel.