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
Fear the Reaper
The website for Nancy Kilpatrick’s Danse Macabre anthology is now online. I received my contributor copy last week, and the book will launch at World Fantasy in Toronto. My contribution is “Therapy,” which won the final Wee Small Hours contest … Continue reading
Better living through chemistry
My August contribution to Storytellers Unplugged is called Writing in My Head, and it’s now live. I’ve been suffering with lower back pain for a couple of years. I say “pain,” because that’s the standard term, but it’s really a … Continue reading
The two are very close, but they never actually touch
I wrote my Storytellers Unplugged essay this morning. It’s called “Writing In My Head,” and was inspired by a blog I read in the NY Times. It will appear on Friday morning. I’m on the verge of starting a new … Continue reading
Everyone sounds like Meryl Streep
I spent most of the weekend finishing and editing an essay for Screem magazine. I’m waiting for interview answers to finalize it. It’s currently at about 5200 words, plus a sidebar article that’s another 1000 or so. I finished Fallen by Karin … Continue reading
Written in bacon
I’ve been on a book review binge these past several days. I was getting behind so I decided to put everything else aside and clean the stack off the floor next to my desk that’s been nagging at me. Here … Continue reading
The Cure
Sold another short story today. Always a good feeling. I’ve been catching up with book reviews these past couple of mornings. Wrote the first draft of my next contribution to Dead Reckonings and posted reviews of Tess Gerritsen’s The Silent … Continue reading
Riddle me this
I finished polishing the new short story (final count: 4100 words) and delivered it to the person who solicited it this morning. When I say “finished” I mean: I forced myself to stop revising it, which is about the same … Continue reading
Everybody dies in this movie
The Spirit of Poe is now available for Kindle. Only $3.99. I finished the second and third drafts of the new story I’m getting ready to submit. The first version was 5100 words and the third was 4100. Most of … Continue reading
Manhunters
It’s funny how after a year of drought, every time it rains becomes noteworthy. This has been a fairly typical summer for rain. Some heavy storms, the odd squall or typical rain shower. And yet every time it rains now, … Continue reading
You want more?
The Spirit of Poe is available at Amazon, finally, after some prolonged production delays. It contains my story “The Case of the Tell-tale Black Cat of Amontillado (with Zombies and an Ourang-Outang).” This collection, introduced by Dr. Barbara Cantalupo, offers … Continue reading