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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Madman with a Box
I gave up on Ashes to Ashes, the UK sequel to Life on Mars, once, but I was encouraged to give it a second try and did so. After all, you can never have too much Gene Hunt. The third … Continue reading
Tuckerized, not Tuckered
A number of years ago, a character named Bev Vincent who was a crystal scientist from Houston, showed up as a murder victim in the Michael Slade novel Bed of Nails. I met Slade at the World Horror Convention in … Continue reading
Real Life
I got up at 5 a.m. UK time yesterday and caught the 6 a.m. bus from Brighton to Heathrow. Foggy, rainy morning, but it was cool to see all the sheep and lambs along the side of the road en … Continue reading
The Morning After
Yesterday was a busy day at World Horror. We had our Evolve book launch at 2 p.m. and it was very well attended. I don’t know how many copies we sold, but it seemed like we were busy signing copies … Continue reading
I could have danced all night
Two quick observations from the streets of Brighton. Yesterday morning, as I was walking back to the hotel from the Internet Cafe, I passed the Town Crier in full regalia. Cheerful guy! This morning, on my way here, I was … Continue reading
In Brighton
I’m on a £1 an hour Internet cafe computer in Brighton at the moment, recovering from day 1. Got into Heathrow yesterday morning, took the bus to Brighton and made it through the rest of the day without succumbing to … Continue reading
Brighton Beach Memoirs
My flight to Heathrow departs at 5 p.m. today and gets in at 7 a.m. tomorrow. I’m planning to take full advantage of the 777’s excellent in-flight entertainment system, but I’m also taking my Kindle to pass the time, too. … Continue reading
Odd laps
Good episode of Castle this week. Dana Delaney running the show and making Beckett seven shades of jealous. One nice thing about the show is that everyone is a competent detective. Lots of great chemistry, though I still have a … Continue reading
Mr. Memory
Starting to get into gear for World Horror. I leave on Wednesday afternoon for a 10-hour nonstop flight into Heathrow. On a 777, so I’m hoping the in-flight entertainment system is in full gear. If not, I’ll have my Kindle … Continue reading
My doctor is a character
Not everyone can pull off the cowboy hat look. Joe Don Baker did it well in the BBC miniseries Edge of Darkness that we watched last weekend, and Timothy Olyphant does it well in the new FX series Justified. It’s … Continue reading