Bev Vincent is
the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of The
Road to the Dark Tower, an authorized companion to Stephen King's Dark
Tower series. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine
and a charter member of the editorial board of Accent,
an online literary review. He has published over three
dozen
short stories, including a recent appearance in the Bram Stoker Award
winning From the Borderlands anthology, which features stories by
Stephen King, Whitley Strieber, Bentley Little and others. He's also the
co-author of numerous scientific
articles.
Bev
was born in New Brunswick and lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia for eight
years while attending Dalhousie University. After obtaining a Ph. D. in
chemistry, he spent two years in Zurich, Switzerland before moving to
Texas in 1989. He is married and has a teenage daughter.
He contributes to Storytellers Unplugged on the 17th of each month. He maintains a message board and a live journal, and can often be found hanging out at the Shocklines message board.
Awards, Prizes and Praise
- Harming Obsession: The Harrow, October 30, 2000 (first prize winner).
- Quietly: Woodlands Writers Guild 2000 writer's contest (Honorable Mention).
- The Rendezvous: Woodlands Writers Guild 2001 writer's contest (Third place)
- Special Delivery, 2nd place winner, Weird Tales Contest, WHC 2003.
- Scroll to the bottom of this page for a picture of me accepting an International Horror Guild Award on behalf of Rich Chizmar. Maybe the closest I'll ever get to one of these puppies!
Praise for Harming Obsession (The Harrow, Cemetery Dance, Octoberland)
* 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.
Bev Vincent is represented by Michael Psaltis and the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
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