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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I’m a weekend bachelor this weekend. My wife is doing her Ph. D. in nursing research, and when she gets a patient for her study she is gone for a week collecting data every hour, with occasional relief so she … Continue reading
Welcome to 1973
The BBC has released a trailer for The Planet of the Dead, the Doctor Who Easter special. Unfortunately, the video on their website seems to be out of order. Fortunately, it’s up on YouTube. Whatever would we do without YouTube? … Continue reading
Meetings
Today was a day of meetings. A sales rep at 9:00, an alpha review for our new CRM package from 10:30 to 1:00 and another meeting from 3 to 4:30. I had a few minutes to heat up a little … Continue reading
Locked-in syndrome
Last night’s episode of House reminded me of the French movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was inspired by a French editor who suffered a catastrophic brain episode and ended up completely paralyzed except for one eyelid. His … Continue reading
Another one gone
I hear via a grapevine that the book review editor at the Houston Chronicle has been let go. No word yet on what that means for the book review section that appears as part of the Sunday Zest supplement. Maybe … Continue reading
The heat is on
It’s almost April and we have the heat running. It’s going to be down as low as 40° tonight. In Texas. A cold front stormed through late yesterday afternoon–there were reports of hail in some areas, variously reported as golf-ball … Continue reading
Being Critical
For the first time in I don’t know how long, we are actually ahead of the average monthly rainfall. The last few days have seen considerable rainfall in the area. Water was sluicing out of the drains that remove water … Continue reading
Cheap storage
I’m pretty good about backing up work in progress, and doing occasional mass backups of my documents, but not as good as I should be. I have a “Sky Drive” on Windows Live where I upload material so there’s an … Continue reading
The Road Less Traveled
Sometimes TV shows test my patience. Though I like The Mentalist, they shouldn’t resort to passing off things that can’t pass muster if you think about them for a few seconds. Sure, a GPS system will let you get to … Continue reading
Why is it always Walt?
Some years I hardly travel at all, and others I’m on the road more than I care to think about. So far I have trips planned (or already taken) for four of the first five months of 2009. Among my destinations: … Continue reading