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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Oh, no!
One of the delights of writing a really short short story is the fact that you can edit and revise it many times in a single sitting. I finished a 2300-word story on Friday and spent the weekend going over … Continue reading
Isn’t It Romantic?
Since it’s already been brought to my attention that I write like a girl, why shouldn’t I publish a romance story? I’d like to say that my upcoming appearance in New Love Stories magazine is a response to that previous editor’s gender-based … Continue reading
Accidental writing
I’m reading The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson. The book focuses much more on Elizabeth Salander than on Mikael. I’m about 1/4 of the way into it, and I don’t like it nearly as much as The … Continue reading
Tin Years
I didn’t plan to start writing the new short story this morning. In fact, I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to. However, when I went to bed last night I had a vision of the opening scene that was … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
I had one of those interesting phone calls yesterday afternoon, the kind that I can’t talk about and won’t be able to talk about for months. It was about an interesting project unlike anything else I’ve ever been a part … Continue reading
The Dog Days of Summer
After a late start, the hurricane season is off and racing, with a 1-2-3 punch of storms being named all within a day. The most serious of them, Bill, looks like it might be what is called a “fish storm,” … Continue reading
50 bands
I finished my review of Audrey’s Door last night and sent it off to Dead Reckonings. Two months ahead of deadline, no less. I’m in desk-clearing mode again. This morning I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay, which I’ll proof this … Continue reading
Vanity
This is the first full review I’ve seen for Tesseracts Thirteen. The punch line: “hands down recommendation from me on Tesseracts 13. Whatever it takes to get this collection in your hands….you will not be disappointed!” Had to work late … Continue reading
Anybody Seen My Legs?
I went back to work this morning on my review of Audrey’s Door for Dead Reckonings #6. It’s a fairly long piece, 1500 words, and I think I’ve got it more or less in the shape I want. Another couple … Continue reading
Resigning
I turned in the 1000-word review of Under the Dome to Cemetery Dance last night. I think it actually turned out to be closer to 1100 words, but that was as short as I could make it in the time allotted. … Continue reading