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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No gold star
Nice try with the CGI submarine effect on Lost last night. Not quite a gold star effort, but an E for effort. I found myself concentrating on the way the ripples the sub generated didn’t interact with the normal tide … Continue reading
Without a trace of Romeo
I decided to give myself a morning off from writing. I do that every now and then, especially after I’ve completed a project. With the short story written, revised, edited, submitted and re-revised, I figure it was a job well … Continue reading
Detox Mansion
Well, that has to set the record for the fastest drug detox program on record. Who knew that all you had to do was sit on the floor of the bathroom for 24 hours, suffer the dry heaves for a … Continue reading
Fourth place via the outhouse
Of course, you can’t fault someone for answering mother nature’s call when it comes so insistently, especially after guzzling several bottles of water to wash down various disgusting foodstuffs. However, the decision to take a pee break cost that team … Continue reading
Mayday
This morning I finished the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on for the past week. Came in at 5500 words, which is over the limit, but a good place to start for revisions. I routinely strip … Continue reading
Jetlag
I used to travel a lot for my day job, but over the past several years that has slowed down, until recently. This year I’ve been on three business trips so far, which is infinitely more than last year (since … Continue reading
Swine
I’m in San Diego for the next couple of days. It’s amazing what a couple of hours’ time difference can do to a person’s internal timeclock. It doesn’t seem like much, but. I woke up at 4 a.m. today, which … Continue reading
Migration
I’m glad this week is over. The big data migration took place yesterday and today at work, tens of thousands of records transferred from one database to another, from a flat database to a relational database. Nervous making, especially since … Continue reading
Kindling
My Cemetery Dance chapbook The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: 8 Secondary Characters from The Dark Tower Series is now available in an electronic edition for the Kindle, iPhones and iTouches, the latter provided you have the free app to … Continue reading
Walter Bishop Goes to War
My friend Marcy Italiano has a new book out, Katrina and the Frenchman: A Journal From the Street, which is about her experiences in New Orleans during the hurricane, and afterward. I read the manuscript a while back and supplied … Continue reading