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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What a difference a year makes
I revised my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning and posted it on the dashboard to appear in the wee small hours of the morning this time next week. That day, September 17th, is also my 20th anniversary at my current … Continue reading
Life’s A Beach
We spent the last four days in one of those townhouses on the far right of the image. It was wonderful. The townhouse itself was very nice. Bi-level, with two balconies front and back, wide screen TV (which we didn’t … Continue reading
Off the grid
Tonight’s the night that Jeff or Jordan end up getting an all-expenses paid trip to the jury house on Big Brother. I don’t know which way it goes, but hope the survivor wins HoH. That tends to happen a lot … Continue reading
Pimpin’
My contact at the publisher tells me that The Stephen King Illustrated Companion should be in the Barnes & Noble warehouse on September 25th, at which point it will be available for order on their web site. Books should land … Continue reading
A Matter of Degrees
Testing out some new code to get the images in my posts to show up on the right-hand side on both my web site and on LJ. We’ll see how that works momentarily. (Apparently not so well, but at least … Continue reading
Czech, please
It was a little cooler than normal on Saturday morning, with a breeze, so once I got going on mowing the front lawn I let momentum carry me over to the back, which has been much neglected this summer. It’s … Continue reading
What’s in a Name?
So, Russell got the boot on Big Brother. No big surprise there. Natalie had the temerity to announce that the three people who got to vote would be voting for her, so Julie Chen decided to give her a jolt … Continue reading
Denouement
I finished The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson last night. The novel has absolutely no denouement. No tying up of loose ends or ruminating over the meaning of events. Climax, boom, the end. Of course, Larrson has … Continue reading
Big Brother: Cancelled!
Two els in that word to denote the British spelling, since it is the British series I’m talking about. The original has apparently run its course and come to a natural end and won’t be renewed. I’ve never seen any … Continue reading
The Root Element is Missing
I started working on an old short story that I plan to completely revamp. I’ve had some encouraging rejection letters with good, constructive criticism to guide me. I also came across some news items recently that I planned to weave … Continue reading