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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Lame ideas
I hate it when an otherwise good TV show relies on terribly faulty logic to further the story. Last night’s episode of The Closer is case in point. In order to give the wannabe cop access to detailed information about … Continue reading
The other Charlie Brown
I didn’t really know Charles N. Brown from Locus magazine, but I’ve been reading his magazine for the better part of 25 years now. It’s the only magazine to which I actually subscribe. My favorite part of the magazine, outside of … Continue reading
In a 2 lb bag
When my buddy Brian was sick he used to say that he felt like 10 lbs of crap in a 5 lb bag. Apropos of that, we watched Seven Pounds with Will Smith last night. The movie suffers from a … Continue reading
The guy who’s watching you
I revised my Storytellers essay and, having made few changes, posted it to the dashboard so it will show up a week from today. Then I moved on to another essay that I’m trying to get finished as part of … Continue reading
Free Agent
Of course, now that I have a Kindle, Amazon goes and lowers the price by $60. I wrote the first draft of my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning, 1000 cathartic words. My wife thought it was great, and I hope it … Continue reading
21st Century Breakdown
I’ve been listening to two things lately. At the gym on my iPod I’ve been playing “left right left right,” the free live album that Coldplay offered on their website. Their songs have an energy that lends itself to the … Continue reading
Delicate Sound of Thunder
My short story “Charlie’s Voice” is now online at Story Station. As I mentioned yesterday, this is a YA site and the story probably qualifies as YA, but it’s also good for an OA audience, too (old adults!) as that’s … Continue reading
YA
We stand a better chance of getting rain this week than we have in a long time, with the POP at about 30% every day, and high temps below 95° for at least the next couple of days and below … Continue reading
We’re happy — not so sure about the squirrel
We like our back deck, but so do the flies, so last summer I bought this canopy thingie that fits over the patio umbrella and forms an enclosure around the table. The bottom is weighted by a water-filled tube. We didn’t … Continue reading
Let’s split the difference
Huh — I typed “combination US Canada flag” into my search engine and darned if that isn’t exactly what I got–and what I was looking for. It’s gotten to the point where if you can think of it, you can … Continue reading