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
The McNulty driving academy
While I was cleaning some papers off the sideboard on my desk this weekend, I found the submission guidelines for an anthology that I’d forgotten about. The deadline is next week, so I tossed the guidelines. Then, when I was … Continue reading
Nothing says endless love like capital murder
I finished Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough while waiting for my car to be serviced this weekend. Car is seven years old and has just over 35,000 miles. I joke (though it’s almost true) that I change my oil once … Continue reading
The Shield
My September Storytellers Unplugged essay is online. It’s called What they do and what they say, and is about revisiting a familiar classic mystery series in the hands of a new author. Appalachian Undead is almost here, so time is … Continue reading
The Other Fat Man
I have to write a Storytellers Unplugged essay this weekend, but I have absolutely no idea what to write about. Maybe something will come to me. I hope so. I received a pdf review copy of Archie Meets Nero Wolfe: A Prequel … Continue reading
56 and counting
I finished Phantom by Jo Nesbø on Sunday. (How exactly do you pronounce “ø”?”) A complex, gritty, dark, violent Norwegian crime novel. From there I moved on to The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy) by Justin Cronin. Good to be back in that world … Continue reading
And then there were dinosaurs
I’ve been getting stories back into submission after allowing a batch of them to lie fallow while I was busy with other things. I only forgot to attach one manuscript to an e-mail, so I guess that’s okay. I posted … Continue reading
Golf in the Gulf
We don’t have a beach house, but we have the next best thing: a rental house on the beach that we’ve been going to for the past several years. It feels a little like a time-share, but we don’t have … Continue reading
The Commish loses weight. And his moral compass.
I received two atypical rejection letters this week. The first was for a story that had been with the market for about a year. It was a good market, so I was patient, but I queried about it recently, to … Continue reading
The heat is on
I was on light writing duty this weekend. I finished the first draft of my next column for Cemetery Dance, but that’s about it. I’m still thinking deeply about the next short story I want to write, but for some … Continue reading
In the Crowd
My essay Faces in the Crowd is now up at FEARNet. It tracks the evolution of King’s new short story collaboration with Stewart O’Nan, “A Face in the Crowd,” essentially from the moment King got the idea in 2004 until … Continue reading