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
Out of the Cold
I’ve known this for months but can only talk about it now that the table of contents has been released. My short story “The Honey Trap” will appear in the Mystery Writers of America anthology Ice Cold, edited by Jeffery Deaver … Continue reading
They should have called Dirk Pitt
This Costa Concordia salvage operation is fascinating. On one level it’s about as interesting to watch as paint drying, but on another the sheer magnitude of the effort is amazing. Imagine being in one of those Zodiac boats in the … Continue reading
Series come and series go
I finished revising the most recent short story and submitted it to the intended market. It’s one of those places that promises (and usually delivers on) fast responses, sometimes as short as 24 hours. Given that it’s been three days … Continue reading
Better Call Saul
Very sad to hear of the passing of Bob Booth, aka Papa Necon, this weekend. He was an author, an editor and the founder of my favorite horror writers’ convention. He had been battling cancer all this year, but he … Continue reading
Off the grid
We spent the holiday weekend off the grid, which is unusual for both of us. No phones, texts, emails or web presence from Friday afternoon until yesterday. We went to a B&B in Galveston for three nights, which was a … Continue reading
Some people are immune to good advice
It is surprisingly difficult to deem a short story “finished” and to send it out into the world. My writing progress for the weekend consisted of taking a 4300 word short story and turning it into a 4000 word story. … Continue reading
Carborundum
We had an amazing rainstorm on Friday afternoon. It swept across the state from the north, blowing through just as I was driving home from work. It was like being in a typhoon. In some parts of the Houston area, … Continue reading
Heart in the yard
Ann and Nancy Wilson serenaded us to sleep last night. The Woodlands Pavilion is three miles away from us and on nights like last night, with low cloud cover, the sound travels. At first my wife thought we were hearing … Continue reading
Lard-Ass Hogan…in space
If you missed out on the HWA round table last night, “The Continuing Impact of Stephen King,” there’s still time to take part. The page will remain open for the next few days and the four contributors (Douglas E. Winter, … Continue reading
The mind’s eye
It’s only going to be 97° tomorrow. What a relief. I’m a thousand words into the new story I wrote about last time. Yesterday, while on the elliptical, I managed to sketch out the bones of the plot, so I … Continue reading