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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Bounce
I finished Under the Dome this morning. Took me less than four days. My right shoulder is a little sore from holding the book up while I lay in bed reading. I’m going to recommend that people work out to … Continue reading
Blind as a bat
I made it to page 900 of Under the Dome by the end of this morning’s reading session. I’ve pretty much abandoned everything else to meet this deadline. I received the book on Tuesday evening and I’ll finish it tomorrow, … Continue reading
Operation rose
I’m putting pretty much everything else aside to read Under the Dome. My evening is spent reading, as is my morning writing time slot. I’m about 555 pages in after two days, so I think I’ll be able to finish … Continue reading
NCIS squared
I received the 1080-page book last night. I opened the front door to speak with someone collecting signatures for a petition–a very perky young lady named Scarlett–and there it was, leaning up against the doorframe like a stack of bricks. … Continue reading
My name is Charlie
A very clever conclusion to The Closer last night. They had people confessing left, right and center, and the DA thought for a moment that the real confession was going to be inadmissible because the suspect (a rather eleventh hour … Continue reading
Gene gene genie
Yesterday, I finished and submitted last week’s short story after several rounds of revision. I always know I’m close to being done when I go through a round of edits where I only make spot changes of individual words. It … Continue reading
Scared off another one
We finally got some rain yesterday. At first it looked like it was going to be another one of those teases. The sky got very dark, stayed dark, and then it rained for about 30 seconds and stopped. However, an … Continue reading
Remodeling a story
The short story that I submitted on Saturday was received favorably by the two editors who’ve read it so far, one of them tells me. It still has to pass by one more editor, so it’s not exactly accepted yet, … Continue reading
Best Laid Plans
Probably the only good thing about this drought we are in is the fact that I don’t have to mow the lawn. I think I’ve had the mower out once in the past six weeks. The grass is growing a … Continue reading
Be Seeing You
No, I’m not going anywhere. The subject line is inspired by this nine-minute trailer for the AMC remake of The Prisoner, which will air in November. It looks awesome–the original seen through new eyes. It reminds me of Life on … Continue reading