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
Category Archives: Eureka
Travel agents
I finished the first draft of a story I’ve been working on for a couple of weeks. It’s been tough going for a couple of reasons. First, I used the bones of an old, unfinished story as the basis for … Continue reading
I’ll handle that tomorrow
My essay The Illustrious Man is now up on Storytellers Unplugged. It’s about the people whose works inspire and influence us and, in particular, Ray Bradbury. I was going to work on my Screem magazine essay this morning but I … Continue reading
Two by two
The rain tapered off yesterday afternoon. I don’t think I used the windshield wipers on the way home from work. Then it started up again at about 3 a.m. and it has been pouring ever since. I had a call … Continue reading
Books, Movies and TV
It was 100° the day we arrived in San Francisco, the tail end of a heat wave, but it moderated quickly after that. Most days the temperature was in the seventies and it was in the forties at night, which … Continue reading
Ninja storm
We got smacked by a storm that snuck up on us yesterday afternoon. Nobody seriously expected we’d get any rain yesterday. They posted a 20% chance, but that was just them being optimistic. But then around 3:30 or 4:00 the … Continue reading
SVU Mayhem
The end of my short story is in sight. I know more or less what’s going to happen in the last page or two. All that remains is to write them. I stopped this morning on a high point so … Continue reading
Contract negotiations?
People have been asking about a hard copy of Rage Against The Night, the anthology from which all profits flow to the Fund to help Rocky Wood manage ALS/Motor Neurone Disease. You can now purchase the trade paperback from Amazon or … Continue reading
Seasons change
We had a very wet beginning to the year, but it didn’t take long for people to start thinking about drought again when it didn’t rain for a few weeks. We had a brief but loud thunderstorm in the middle … Continue reading
The secret to humor is surprise
I hear a lot of people asking the same question: where the hell did April go? Having a rough time getting back into the swing of fiction writing again after a several-month hiatus. I’m trying to write a short story … Continue reading
A good day for dragons
I received my contributor copy of The Crane House from Cemetery Dance last night and finally got a chance to read the story. My contribution is Chapter 5, so there was a lot that happened after I passed it on … Continue reading