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
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Whirling in an arc of sadness…
(Obligatory obscure lyric title) I managed to hand-edit another 35 pages of manuscript last night before the evening was given over to LOST. I haven’t been watching the rehash episodes, but I tuned in for last night’s and was glad … Continue reading
Hardcopy
Last night was the first television-free weeknight in recent memory, and I got a decent amount of work done. My first editing pass on the novel in progress was done at the computer, and it was a process of unwriting—getting … Continue reading
A bad day to be a human
I watched all four hours of the A&E remake of The Andromeda Strain last night. The original is clearly dated in terms of the technology, but it is a suspenseful film all the same and not really in need of … Continue reading
Jack Haringa Must Die to support Shirley Jackson Awards
Jack Haringa Must Die! (104 pp) is now available from Merricat Publications. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards. “Within the pages of this book are the tales, scenes, confessionals, and dare I say, fantasies of the … Continue reading
Mad Movie
I love my new(ish) laser printer, a Brother HL-2070N. For years, all I had were bubblejet and inkjet printers. Generating a novel manuscript on one of those puppies—no way. Wave bye-bye to an ink cartridge and keep feeding sheets of … Continue reading
The movie’s not there
I’m not the biggest Bob Dylan fan on the planet by any stretch of the imagination. I respect what he did, but I find a lot of his material difficult to listen to. It always seemed to me like he … Continue reading
Jack Haringa Must Die!
Jack Haringa Must Die! (104 pp) is now available from Merricat Publications. Proceeds from the book will benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards. It contains my flash story “A Post-Apostrophic Tale.”
Juno at a Funeral
Two more movies last night. First was a British comedy called Death at a Funeral, though the title is a little misleading. It’s a farce set around a funeral that involves hallucinogenic drugs labeled “Valium,” a 4′ tall blackmailer, a … Continue reading
Diving bell
We’re camping in for the long weekend. I stocked up on movies to watch in the evenings, we’ll fire up the BBQ later in the afternoon, and we’ll catch up on the severe sleep deficits we both seem to be … Continue reading
Powerless
Something we have to grow accustomed to around here once the hot weather arrives, which it has, is sporadic power outages. Sometimes they are prolonged, half an hour, a couple of hours, but usually they are momentary. I’d rather the … Continue reading