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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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Just in time for spring — more cold weather
There hasn’t been all that much to blog about lately. We went out to an Irish pub on Wednesday evening for a couple of beers to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. A Guinness rep was there handing out trinkets and free … Continue reading
Good for you
Contrary to what I said in my Storytellers Unplugged essay, “The Book Launch,” I did in fact remember to wear something green today. I wasn’t entirely sure — I had to confirm it with my wife. I thought for a … Continue reading
A Lifetime
I received my Stoker nomination certificate in yesterday’s mail. Shortly it will be hanging on the wall next to its mate from five years ago and the new Edgar nomination certificate, which is almost as large as the two Stoker … Continue reading
Beware the Ides of ZZzzzz…
I had no trouble getting up at my usual time this morning, even with the time change, but I feel draggy today. I should be back on schedule just in time to go to England and mess myself up all … Continue reading
Those wacky heroes
I’m making progress with my new exercise regime. Yesterday I managed five laps of the pool (up from three), and today I knocked a minute off the time for my aerobics training. I had a brilliant idea about the story … Continue reading
Only in Canada, eh?
What did they expect? There’s an article on the CBC website today about an Air Canada flight from Vancouver to Montreal that was delayed a couple of weeks ago. Not necessarily big news. The reason for the delay? Technical problems? Nope. … Continue reading
Lost – Redemption
We’re skipping spring and going straight into summer. Not exactly, but we’ve been flirting with 80° days this week, though the evenings are cool. I’m getting back into my exercise regimen after two months off. Hit the elliptical today to … Continue reading
Swimming laps
I wonder how many takes it took for them to nail the showtune scene on How I Met Your Mother last night. It was one of those montages where the actors essentially stay put and a lot of backdrops and … Continue reading
Suitable for framing
I received my Edgar nomination certificate this weekend. It’s ginormous, as my daughter would say. 11 x 17. Went out at noon to pick up a frame for it so it can hang on the wall of shame fame. Speaking … Continue reading
Guilty of a bad haircut
Found out this morning that my story “Ground Wood,” originally published by the now-defunct Wrong World as a DVD ebook, will be in Volume One of Best New Zombie Tales, edited by James Roy Daley at his Books of the … Continue reading