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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Crunch time
When a person has two jobs, it’s probably inevitable that they would collide at some point. By “collide” I mean “get very busy at the same time.” That’s where I’ve been for the past month or so. A project I’m … Continue reading
Five For Writing
My buddy Richard Dansky posted a brief interview the he did with me for his blog as part of his Five For Writing series. After you check it out, scroll down for other interviews with the likes of Doug Clegg, … Continue reading
CSI: Vulcan
Product placement takes on a whole new level when CSI runs an episode based around a science fiction convention with a thinly veiled Star Trek theme (Astro Quest indeed — they might as well have called it Galaxy Quest and … Continue reading
I can see for Miles and Miles
I had the good fortune to see Miles Davis in concert about 15 years ago at the JVC Jazz Festival. His voice was shot by then, and he held up signs every so often to convey something to the audience. … Continue reading
Proofs
I had a nice big box awaiting me on the front porch yesterday afternoon. It contained the first pass page proofs for the book I’ve been working on this year. A hefty package, since the proofs are printed on 11 x … Continue reading
Data recovery
I finished my Storytellers Unplugged essay and got it posted on the dashboard so it will appear this Friday without me doing anything else to it, and I also got a fair amount of work done on my Cemetery Dance … Continue reading
White Night
Last night we watched the pilot of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a BBC adaptation of the novels by Alexander McCall Smith. I read one of the books a while back (The Miracle at Speedy Motors) and found it … Continue reading
Ben the Liar
There was a TV show when I was in high school called Billy, which I remember as Billy the Liar, about a Walter Mitty kinda guy. Now we have Ben the Liar on Lost, a guy who tells the truth only … Continue reading
Shocked
I vaguely remember last week’s preview for this week’s House saying something about it being the kind of episode that changes everything, but I blew it off. I thought that the guest appearance of Meat Loaf (as a guy named … Continue reading
Chilly April
I watched some of the original Alien yesterday afternoon when I stumbled upon it on STARZ network, which is a subscription channel we aren’t supposed to have but do. The guy who installed our cable told us we would probably … Continue reading