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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Hancock surprise
The surgical procedure on an old short story has turned radical. It started at 6200 words, ended up at 4600 words after the first edit and is currently at 3600 words in the midst of the next editing round. What’s … Continue reading
A meta-mystery
RIP Donald Westlake. He was one of the truly great ones. The Sleuth channel seems to have vanished from my cable system. It used to be right there at #227, between BBC and Biography channels. For the last two days, … Continue reading
Resolutions
I don’t make ’em—at least not at the end or beginning of the year. If I want to change something, I just do it when it occurs to me. It’s a nice crisp day here in southeast Texas. We’ve had … Continue reading
Smothered
One of my Christmas gifts this year was a DVD set of the best of season three of the Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour (that’s how the announcer says it at station breaks). I remember watching the Smothers Brothers when I … Continue reading
Movies, movies, movies, movies
The cold is more or less gone. At least the worst of it has passed. A little bit of sinus involvement, but I can no longer claim basso profundo. Shucks. I didn’t know much about A Christmas Story until introduced … Continue reading
The geese are getting fat
Still cold outside today and I still have a cold. Hopefully both will be gone by tomorrow. I’m keeping Kleenex, Halls and the makers of Thera-Flu in business. I showed the outline I’ve been working on to my agent yesterday … Continue reading
Leatherheads
I’m in the throes of a full-fledged head cold. I’ve been emptying the tissue box, drinking TheraFlu and partaking of more than my fair share of Halls throat lozenges. Yesterday morning I sounded like the bass singer from the Statler … Continue reading
Rolling Stones
I hope they get to resolve some of the major plots on Eli Stone before it goes off the episode 13, which is supposed to be its swan song. Things keep getting complicated, with Jordan’s estrangement from her father, and … Continue reading
Telling the truth…
My new Storytellers Unplugged essay is now online: Telling the truth for fun and profit.
Telling the truth…
Originally published at Bev Vincent. You can comment here or there. My new Storytellers Unplugged essay is now online: Telling the truth for fun and profit.