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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Tuckered out
Last night I watched the first four episodes of Breaking Bad, an AMC series about a high school English teacher who starts cooking crystal meth as a way of paying for his medical bills after he’s diagnosed with lung cancer … Continue reading
Windy
The previews for this week’s C.S.I. announced that it would remind people why it’s the #1 program on television. In my opinion it did every bit of that. It may have been one of the best episodes of the program … Continue reading
The Egyptian connection
I received the marked-up manuscript from the editor yesterday, so I have until a week from today to turn in my revised version. It shouldn’t be that big of a job, but it doesn’t help that I will be traveling … Continue reading
The dangers of research
This is the current version of the cover of Issue 6 of Shroud magazine, which will contain my story “The View From the Top.” Usually I get cover credit under my pseudonym, “and others,” but not this time! Click on … Continue reading
Happy square root day
Today, 03/03/09, is designated a square root day. The day and month are the roots of the two-digit year. This is soon to be followed by the upcoming π day, which is March 14 (3.14). The math geek in me … Continue reading
Travel plans
I haven’t been traveling much lately, but I have a three trips scheduled over the next few months. This weekend I am going to Chicago for a couple of days at PITTCON, an instrumentation trade show. The following week I’ll … Continue reading
Life in 3D
I’ve been pretty busy this week with daylong meetings at work and lots of deadlines. Things should return more or less to normal next week. More or less. Since I’ve got so many pending deadlines between now and mid-April (and … Continue reading
Shark attack
I finished off my Cemetery Dance column, which is due on Thursday. I’ll probably reread it a couple of more times to make sure it’s polished, but I also have a book review to turn in on the same day, … Continue reading
Catching up
I didn’t get much writing work done last week, so I caught up a little bit this weekend. I have a fairly lengthy to-do list beside my home computer that covers deadlines through April. Somewhere soon I also expect to … Continue reading
Hockey Day in Canada
Tomorrow is Hockey Day in Canada. Of course, anyone who grew up in that country knows that pretty much every day is Hockey Day in Canada. And it is, of course, sponsored by that Canadian culinary king, Tim Hortons. (Tim … Continue reading