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
Hatufim
So far, 2013 has been relatively rainy. In a state that is often flirting with drought, that isn’t a bad thing. I wouldn’t have minded a pass on the rain last Saturday, when we spent much of the day helping … Continue reading
The one thing needful
I met Peter David at Jekyll & Hyde in New York City in 2006. I was in the city on a family vacation. One of our few pre-scheduled events was a trip to Radio City Music Hall for “Harry, Carrie … Continue reading
The revolution starts now
Over the Christmas break, I went through the page proofs for The Dark Tower Companion. Typically what you do with these is mark your changes in the rather spacious margins, photocopy any pages that have errors, and then send just … Continue reading
Talk talk talk
Back to reality today. The notion of not shaving for over a week seems like a good idea at the time, until the day of reckoning and all that growth (scary how grey it is!) has to go. After the … Continue reading
Vacation’s over
My long vacation is nearly at an end. I’ve been off work since the Friday before Christmas, but I have to go back for a three-day week tomorrow. Many of the daytime hours for the first week or so were … Continue reading
The year in review
Goodbye to 2012, which was a pretty good year, and hello to 2013, which already has one thing going for it: it’s the first year since 1987 where all four digits are unique. On the reading front, I started 76 … Continue reading
A whale of a finale
I spent much of Saturday responding to a series of interview questions. The interview will appear online in January. Links will, of course, be provided. I also polished off my Storytellers Unplugged essay, “Not the time to rewrite your text,” … Continue reading
And then there were four
In a recent interview, Stephen King talks about how he develops novels. As he goes to sleep at night, he tells himself the story, getting a little farther each night. (I first heard and wrote about this approach when I … Continue reading
And nobody came
The cold front arrived in full force this morning. It was 28° when I got up, and I heard there was snow in north Texas, as much as 2-5″. None here, of course. I finished tidying up an interview I … Continue reading
United Nations
Winterish weather is on its way to Texas. It was 81° all weekend, but a front swept through overnight so it was only in the forties and fifties today and we’ll have a three-to-six-hour freeze tomorrow morning. People are already … Continue reading