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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Slow Leak
I haven’t been reading much for the past month. I picked up Chelsea Cain’s second novel, Sweetheart, on Saturday and finished it this morning. It’s a sequel to Heartsick, which introduces Gretchen Lowell, a female version of Hannibal Lecter. The protagonist, … Continue reading
Pulling the trigger
I spent last night and this morning going over the manuscript one more time before I send it off to my editor today. I also received the final contract to sign last night. The timeline for deliverables is spelled out … Continue reading
A ton of awesomeness
I finally received my copy of CD #59 last night. The magazine has been on newsstands for several weeks but, owing to some problems with the mailing house, copies are still trickling out to subscribers. I’ve already turned in my … Continue reading
Doing Lunch
Tonight is Lost night chez moi. All Lost, all the time. Three solid hours. Yes, I know I’m totally up to date, so I could skip the recap show, but maybe there will be one little tidbit of information that … Continue reading
Burn Notice
My wife and I are the same age as the president(-elect, for a little while longer). I’m a couple of months older; she’s a month younger. We’re all Class of ’79. Our generation is getting its shot at the brass ring, … Continue reading
Lost weekend
I did a complete readthrough of the 70 pages I have written on the project I’m not talking about (at great length) yet and marked up the manuscript yesterday, then keyed in the changes this morning. This is the first … Continue reading
Flat screens
I finished Chapter 6 yesterday and passed the 2/3 point in terms of word count. I was tempted to take a crack at Chapter 3 today but, upon reflection, I figured I probably wouldn’t finish it today, which would mean … Continue reading
I reckon
My new essay, Too Many Words, is up at Storytellers Unplugged today. It’s about my recent experiences finding the skinny story inside a fat one. I received my contributor copies of Dead Reckonings #4 yesterday. This is the first issue … Continue reading
Heart over head
So, I broke down and decided to give 24 a shot, watching via Fox On Demand online. Watched the first two hours and was whelmed. Neither over, nor under, just whelmed. (Turns out that whelmed is a real word that … Continue reading
Puzzles
We almost always do a jigsaw puzzle over the Christmas holidays, and this year was no different. We did a 1000-piece picture of an old mill on a stream, so there was water streaming through a sluice and over a … Continue reading