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: January 2010
Now It Can Be Told
I heard back from the editor who accepted my short story back in September but then published a table of contents last week that didn’t contain it. He located my manuscript, read the story over, and decided to keep this … Continue reading
It’s all very innocent, really
Glad to see Castle back this week. Alyssa Milano was a pleasant surprise as Rick’s former flame. I wouldn’t have automatically placed Milano and Fillion together as contemporaries but they are only a year different in age. She’s wearing it … Continue reading
Where’d you come from, Charlie?
I found out this morning who the other participants are going to be in a book project that will be announced shortly. Since the publisher and the editor haven’t made a public announement about it, I’ll remain mum for the … Continue reading
M Bastard 6
We survived the cold snap of 2010. It never seemed to be quite as bad as forecast, although it probably was. The worst of the low temperatures were overnight. By the time we got up and about it was usually … Continue reading
The Heat is (not) On
Colder here this morning than in Halifax, NS, by a few degrees at least. I’m not sure I would have noticed if they weren’t making such a huge fuss about it on the TV and in the newspapers. Sure, it’s … Continue reading
Cold Snap
One of my Facebook friends from Texas made this pithy observation: When the temperature in Texas begins with the digit “1,” it’s supposed to have two more digits after it, not just one. The cold snap of 2010 is sweeping … Continue reading
Deep Freeze
It felt good to be back at the keyboard this morning. This was my first day of normal writing sessions of the new year — my first since before Christmas, in fact. I’m still working on revisions to a 6000-word … Continue reading
London Calling
The Houston Chronicle had a jaunty front-page article this morning about how the temperature in Houston is going to be lower than the temperature at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on Friday morning. The forecast low there is 21° and we’re … Continue reading
Distinguished. Oh My.
The forthcoming vampire anthology Evolve, which contains my short story “A Murder of Vampires,” has a spiffy new web site and is now accepting pre-orders for the various editions, including a trade paperback (signed by all contributors), a hardcover, and a … Continue reading
Worst. Rescue. Ever!
My daughter is attending the Houston Texans game today with a friend, who is a Patriots fan. I’m sitting at home watching the game on TV, probably getting a much better view of events without all the aggro of dealing … Continue reading