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: June 2009
Zebras
Yesterday, I received the electronic proofs for a story that will appear in an anthology later on this year. I only found two little mistakes, one of which I think was inserted by the editors. The other was one of … Continue reading
High tech
The Cemetery Dance Exclusive Collectors Set (including the round robin novella The Crane House) will be yanked off the website later today, so if you want to reserve your copies of these three incredible signed Limited Editions (instead of battling … Continue reading
Past my prime
The season finale of Breaking Bad was a little surprising. For several weeks now, they’ve been teasing us with images of a teddy bear in the swimming pool, crime scene experts photographing the broken windshield of Walt’s car, and a … Continue reading
Crossover
I heard that my publisher had a booth at Book Expo America (BEA) and had a mockup of my forthcoming book on display. Very cool. I’m waiting for until booksellers are set up to take preorders before announcing it. Or until … Continue reading