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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Days of Future Past
The editor of the anthology where “The Fingernail Test” will be published said that I could take one more polish pass at it before sending it to her for editing, so that’s what I did this morning. I remembered being … Continue reading
Meteor Shower
I finished my Storytellers Unplugged essay (Location, Location, Location) this morning, which is the latest I’ve gotten my monthly contribution done in a long time. Usually I have it ready a week or two in advance, but this month I’ve … Continue reading
Are you shpongled?
I went to Atlanta on Friday (the 13th, no less) to attend King’s signing at the Barnes & Noble in Buckhead. We were supposed to meet up for lunch or something beforehand, but the scheduling gremlins got in the way. … Continue reading
Location, location, location
My Barnes & Noble sales rank continued to improve over the course of the day yesterday until it bottomed out at 132. That means it was in 132nd place on the overall bestsellers at their store, a combined list that … Continue reading
The Dome Bounce
Today is my 14th wedding anniversary — fourteen years of wedded bliss. I highly recommend it. The lowest (best) Barnes & Noble sales rank my new book, The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, had reached before today was about 327. It … Continue reading
Meep! Meep!
I saw one of these little guys crossing the road when I went out at lunchtime. It’s not as unusual as seeing a dodo or a roc, but they’re not exactly common in this part of East Texas, either. No … Continue reading
A New Home
The folks over at Cemetery Dance have done some site re-organization. After installing WordPress, my online column has a new URL. Of course, you can still use NewsFromTheDeadZone.com to get there, too. I watched Hanging Gardens, the third episode of … Continue reading
He Never Saw It Coming
One of the best blindsides in the history of Survivor last night. You could just see it in his face as the votes came against him one after another after another. Wiped the smug grin off his face. Two immunity … Continue reading
Cup of Global Domination
When I won the Apex Digest Halloween short story contest in 2006 for “Sufficiently Advanced,” I not only won publication of the story at pro rates and an invitation to their next anthology, I also received a ton of booty. … Continue reading
Dying is easy; comedy is hard
Finished another editing pass through Chapter 2 of the novel in progress, adding in all the things I remembered needed adding when I finished yesterday morning’s session. Then I came up with another three- or four-line exchange, which I dutifully wrote … Continue reading