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
Author Archives: Bev Vincent
Books on the Green
I have been interviewed quite a few times over the years. I’ve also had the good fortune to be able to interview a wide range of people as well including authors, movie directors, producers, film and TV actors, artists, publishers … Continue reading
Book review: Return to Sender by Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson has a home-and-away strategy to writing his novels featuring Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire, which means that alternating books take place in the county seat and some place farther afield. Return to Sender is an away novel, although it’s still … Continue reading
Book Review: Free — My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox has written at length about her experiences as a wrongfully convicted murderer in her previous memoir, a book she freely admits was written to help defray the crushing debt accrued by her family while mounting her defense against … Continue reading
Book review: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Ten years ago, Jeff VanderMeer released a trilogy known collectively as the Southern Reach or Area X novels. A mysterious, mostly impermeable boundary isolated a stretch of the Gulf Coast, killing almost everyone within its confines. The region was called Area … Continue reading
Book review: Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
Former Inspector John Rebus finds himself in the same place where he put so many other people he investigated: Her (or is it His?) Majesty’s Prison Edinburgh. He’s been found guilty of attempted murder in the death of his longtime … Continue reading
2024 in Review Part II: TV and Movies
I watched 55 movies, including documentaries, this year (full list here), and will probably rack up a few more in the coming week. Most of these were watched with my wife, although I watched some alone because they weren’t something … Continue reading
2024 in Review Part I: Reading and Writing
Season’s greetings and happy holidays and all that! This is part one of my annual year-end review. As the title above suggests, this one is about writing/publishing and things I’ve read, which seem to go hand in hand. This year … Continue reading
Book Review: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson
The weather has not always been kind to Sheriff Walt Longmire. His home turf of Absaroka County, Wyoming has brutal winters, and he’s been stranded in the desert for days on end as well. Walt has also faced some human … Continue reading
This is going to take a while
I joined Twitter 15 years ago, about three years after the “microblogging” platform came into existence. In that time, I have tweeted (or retweeted) 326,000 times, liked nearly 300,000 posts, blocked 6700 accounts and muted 600 other. I acquired over … Continue reading
Book review: The Folly by Gemma Amor
The inciting incident is reminiscent of the Michael Peterson case popularized on the Netflix series The Staircase. A woman falls to her death in the family home when the only other person present was her husband. Was she pushed or was … Continue reading