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
Probably a happy ending
Switched reading gears to a couple of short story collections. I started Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake collection yesterday and read about 1/5 of Rage Against the Night, the benefit anthology for Rocky Wood. Got as far as my own story, which I read … Continue reading
Unless this is the one where…
Trying to whip my new short story into shape. I need to get it into the mail by Tuesday morning to make the deadline. I also posted two new book reviews at Onyx Reviews: Long Gone by Alafair Burke and … Continue reading
SVU Mayhem
The end of my short story is in sight. I know more or less what’s going to happen in the last page or two. All that remains is to write them. I stopped this morning on a high point so … Continue reading
Into the sunset (contains House finale spoilers)
Every show’s finale should include a Warren Zevon song. They used “Keep Me in Your Heart” from The Wind album during the finale of House, to good effect. The retrospective was fun, in that it gave them a chance to showcase … Continue reading
Exotic marigolds
Part 2 of Episode 2 of the Lilja & Lou Podcast is now online for your listening pleasure. I join L&L to talk about The Wind Through the Keyhole and my book, The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. I got some more … Continue reading
Osteoporosis by Tom Piccirilli
My buddy Tom Piccirilli is doing a blog tour to promote his upcoming novel, The Last Kind Words (reviewed by me here). Suffice to say: I loved it and I hope it does gangbusters for him. For this stop on the … Continue reading
Contract negotiations?
People have been asking about a hard copy of Rage Against The Night, the anthology from which all profits flow to the Fund to help Rocky Wood manage ALS/Motor Neurone Disease. You can now purchase the trade paperback from Amazon or … Continue reading
Outwit…outplay…outlast…out-dumb?
Episode 2 of the Lilja and Lou Podcast is now available. I talk about the red carpet premiere of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. I posted my review of The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli on the weekend. I … Continue reading
We don’t have to go back to the island any more
The howling dogs next door woke us up. Apparently something about the approaching storm disturbed them. Traumatized, it sounded like. It was somewhere between two and three a.m. Once the thunder started and the rains came, they shut up, so … Continue reading
Some things come to an end
I think I know what I’m going to write about for my next Storytellers Unplugged essay. Except, before I write about it, I have to finish what I’m writing. So I can write about it. Get it? Me, neither. But … Continue reading