* Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror, 16th edition.
"Harming Obsession by Bev Vincent is
possibly the best of the bunch...it's a story high on atmosphere and
carries a real sense of Victor's panic and relief."
—Antony
Mann in The Fix Issue Five
"My favorite story this issue was "Harming
Obsession" by Bev Vincent, the story of a man with obsessive-compulsive
disorder, who was afraid to drive for fear of running down someone. When
his wife sends him out for candy on a dark and rainy Halloween night in
a town filled with young trick or treaters, he is terrified of hitting
one of them. Vincent presents a valid picture of this emotional problem
in a well-written story that kept me in suspense right up to the
nerve-wrenching conclusion."
—
Mary J. Turner at Keltic Circle
Praise for Something in Store (Shivers
II)
"The collection is also balanced with
contributions that have an element of fantasy. "Something in Store", by
Bev Vincent, is an enchanting tale that takes place in a magical
bookstore - one that gives its owner anything he desires."
—Ryan
Kelley
* Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror, 17th edition.
Praise for One of Those Weeks (From the
Borderlands, Borderlands 51, Best of
Borderlands 1-5)
"Bev Vincent took a clever, stylistic approach
to 'One of Those Weeks.' Did you ever get the impression your life was
turning inside out? What if it was? What if it rewound slowly, then
stopped, then started again in another direction? This is an intriguing
bit of prose and all the more rare as a stylistic piece that actually
works."
— David Niall
Wilson in Cemetery Dance #48
"Since the Monteleones emphasize newer talent,
sometimes a story's shivers are clumsily achieved, but tales of
metamorphosis by Bev Vincent ("One of Those Weeks") and Bill Gautier
("The Growth of Alan Ashley") and Dominick Cancilla's study in
psychopathology ("Smooth Operator") are shockingly
polished."
— Booklist
1Borderlands 5 is the 2004 Stoker Award
winner for best anthology.
Praise for Sufficiently Advanced
(Apex Digest)
"Winner of the 2006 Apex Halloween short fiction content,
Sufficiently Advanced by Bev Vincent is a riotous and simple story with
prose as blunt and to the point as the big guy we all know Bev has
written books about. After crash landing on an unknown planet - the only
one to escape his ship The Odyssey - Henry comes into contact with what
appears to be a primitive race. Appears. The flip-flopping that comes
next is nasty and hilarious. A short, sharp piece."
—Matthew Tait in HorrorScope
"Bev Vincent's short space travel tale, Sufficiently Advanced,
is the best story of the bunch. It takes cultural relativism to a whole
new level. The story is well-paced and well-narrated, and Vincent's use
of back-story is sparingly efficient. He tells you just enough to keep
you interested and informed without switching focus away from the
present. The story naturally progresses from the beginning to the climax
to the end, with no jerky movements or awkward pauses. (Insert sexual
joke here.)"
—Greg Schwartz in Whispers
of Wickedness
Praise for Popup Killer (Gratia
Placenti)
"Bev Vincent's 'Popup Killer'
starts with a scene familiar to many a Web surfer. When protagonist Nate
gets an annoying popup ad that refuses to go away, he follows the link
to Truist.corp, where the enigmatic Al asks him for a name of someone in
his life whose removal would make Nate's life better. Scoffing in
disbelief, Nate clicks off. But Al’s words linger, and Nate eventually
revisits the site and gives up a name. The next day, like dark magic, an
annoying co-worker named Ted never existed, and only Nate and Al seem to
remember the name at all. Al insists that Nate should give him more
names, citing three to five as the average number of names that the
people Al helps surrender to him. But Nate’s life is not enriched by
the erasing of these bothersome forces in his life, and he soon learns
the expansive affects of Al’s strange ability to eliminate lives. 'Popup Killer' is instantly familiar to the modern Internet user,
and it ventures into a cavernous electronic world rich in raw genre
material yet to be fully mined by writers of dark fiction. With 'Popup
Killer', Vincent brings a well-written, cautionary tale to the star
power of Gratia Placenti’s pages."
—Michele Lee in Dark
Scribe
"Bev Vincent’s Popup Killer is another
memorable and extremely well done tale that mixes classic time paradox
along with equally classic 'dealing with the Devil' based horror to
impressive effect."
—Norm Rubenstein at Horror
World
Bev Vincent is represented by Michael Psaltis and the Ethan Ellenberg Literary
Agency
Bev
Vincent is the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of 
