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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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We missed out on the freezing rain (I’m not complaining), but it did get back down to the upper 30s this morning. By Thursday it will be 75° again. Keeping track of the temperature is like trying to predict which … Continue reading
Has anyone seen my shoes?
It was 68° this morning when I came to work. The whole weekend was mild and tropical. By noon today, the temperature had dropped to 44° and we are at risk of freezing rain tonight. By mid-day Wednesday it will … Continue reading
No snow today
A decent episode of Survivor last night. Bob’s ill-considered offer to Kenny was amended in the aftermath. I would have lost all respect for Bob if he’d actually kept that promise. It would have been an act of legendary stupidity … Continue reading
Let it — what?
Here’s something you don’t see in Southeast Texas every day. It started snowing here (light—very light flurries) a while ago. The flurries don’t survive all the way to the ground, but they’ve been falling constantly for about 20-30 minutes. Only … Continue reading
Too low for zero
It’s 36° F here today, and there were reports of snow as close as 90 miles from here. Also sleet mixed in with today’s rain and a possibility of flurries at some point, although the ground is too warm for … Continue reading
The last balcony scene
I filled my car’s gas tank from warning-light’s-on empty to the brim for $20 this weekend. $1.65 a gallon. Who thought we’d see that again? It was interesting to see on The Amazing Race the other night, the signs on … Continue reading
Patience
Any computer gurus out there? My wife purchased a retired computer from her university for a pittance. The hard drive was scrubbed, but it is otherwise apparently in fine shape—or so I thought. I can turn the computer on and … Continue reading
Survivor: Oh, well — it was worth a shot
I’m surprised that they made such a big deal about the Survivor proposal during the previews, but Jeff didn’t mention it at all during tribal council. Maybe he didn’t know about it yet? The fatal flaw in Bob’s plan with … Continue reading
Madame Doctor?
A cold front swept across the state last night. It arrived at about 9 pm with a heavy rainfall that sounded at first like hail. Yesterday at this time it was in the 70s; today, the 40s. The U.K. Resource … Continue reading
Mentalist: Chinatown
I get a kick out of it whenever the mentalist wanders off and the rest of the cast calls out for him like Tarzan: Jane! Jane! His little bit with Lisbon at the beginning was one of those gags that … Continue reading