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: October 2009
Fall Forward / Spring Back
I know, I’m messing with you with the title. Screwing with the mnemonic. I’d forgotten that this was time change weekend here in the U.S. An extra hour to do with whatever you want this weekend. Spend it wisely. We … Continue reading
Cool as a cucumber
It’s unseasonably warm today. It was in the high seventies when we went to breakfast this morning and it’s over eighty, now, although it’s also raining. The snow that fell in Colorado is headed our way in the form of … Continue reading
Repeats
Wrote nearly 700 words of the beginning of Chapter 2 this morning. Progress is a little slow at the moment as I attempt to figure out how to dovetail this new beginning into the existing first draft. I’m coming at … Continue reading
There are no cows in space
I’m getting back to the novel after being distracted by other things. I did another intensive pass through Chapter 1 this morning, taking my agent’s comments into consideration, and now I’m ready to charge forward with Chapter 2. At this … Continue reading
Who are you supposed to be?
Spent the weekend in Galveston attending my wife’s 30th high school reunion. I tagged along and enjoyed the wonderful weather. Went to a couple of the events, but I knew no one so I was able to duck out and … Continue reading
On the shelf
Watching Randall do a faceplant on the gameboard on Survivor last night was a bit scary. The fact that most of the other contestants were blindfolded added to the situation. The second time he went out was even worse than … Continue reading
I Predict…
…that The Mentalist will be a rerun tonight. CSI, too. And that Survivor will be awesome. The most scared Jeff Probst has been in 19 years. With Fringe pre-empted, that thins out the evening nicely. We had a torrential rainstorm … Continue reading
Of all the gin joints
Just upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5. I love this one-click upgrade option. I can’t hear the name Rick without thinking of Casablanca. I’m not the kind of person who does “favorite films” or lists of that sort (I come down with … Continue reading
Being There
I like markets that e-mail back to confirm that they’ve received your story and that it is under consideration. I’ve had a couple lately that have done a very good job of keeping me up to date, even if the … Continue reading
Drama Can Happen When People Know Things
I completed, revised, polished, proofed, and fretted over the new short story this weekend and decided to submit it this morning. It came in at exactly 900 words, right smack in the middle of the market’s range. Constructing the story … Continue reading