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: December 2009
Once in a blue moon
A happy 2010 to one and all. Have a great and safe evening. You know all those things they say happen only once in a blue moon? Well, tonight’s the night that they all happen. Beware. Next interesting date: February … Continue reading
The End of Time — It’s Complicated
We had a very Doctor Who Boxing Day evening. BBC America re-ran the two most recent specials as a lead up to part one of The End of Time, the two-part swan song of David Tennant as the Doctor. I … Continue reading
Life’s a Beach
Another balmy day here in southeast Texas. If Santa were on Galveston Island at the moment, he’d probably be decked out as in the accompanying picture. The temperature is supposed to drop 20° on us between today and tomorrow so … Continue reading
The End is Drawing Near
Unseasonably warm today — just a hair shy of 70° and it’s supposed to be even warmer tomorrow. However, we’ll dip into the 30s on Thursday night, so it might feel a little more seasonal by then. It’s hard to … Continue reading
Several movies
Three more days of work for the rest of 2009, including today, which is almost over. Day job work, that is. I still have some work on fiction to do before December falls off the calendar. I also stumbled upon … Continue reading
A Dark Matter
Publisher’s Weekly has a starred review of Peter Straub’s next novel, A Dark Matter. After comparisons (favorable) to Roshaomon, it ends: “Brilliant in its orchestration and provocative in its speculations, this novel ranks as one of the finest tales of … Continue reading
Alternate reality
Today’s Storyteller’s Unplugged entry is called Alternate Reality and it’s about my experiences pretending to be the 13-year-old character Scarecrow Joe for a couple of months as part of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) associated with the release of Stephen … Continue reading
Papa Gibbs
Christmas takes a pretty sound thrashing on most TV shows. It’s easy prey, especially when there are dysfunctional families involved. Carl Reiner’s appearance on Two and a Half Men was one instance where the family ended up munching on turkey … Continue reading
Belle Bridges, but not all that belle
This week’s episode of The Closer was much better than last week, getting away from gang plots and into transgender issues and black widows. Both of these have been done before, many times, but getting Beau Bridges into a dress … Continue reading
Wild Turkey
No, not the bourbon. I saw one of these critters strolling across the road this morning after I dropped my wife off at the park and ride lot. At first I thought it was a turkey vulture (buzzard) because we … Continue reading