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
Seasons change
We had a very wet beginning to the year, but it didn’t take long for people to start thinking about drought again when it didn’t rain for a few weeks. We had a brief but loud thunderstorm in the middle … Continue reading
It takes a village to run a house
I spent an hour on Skype yesterday with Lou Sytsma and Hans-Åke Lilja being interviewed for their next podcast. We talked about a variety of subjects and I believe the material will be used for two podcasts. This is the … Continue reading
Circling the wagons or circling the drain?
I know I’m not really ready to write a story when I find myself going back over the section I’ve already written, editing it to death, without adding much new to the text. That’s the way things were with my … Continue reading
The secret to humor is surprise
I hear a lot of people asking the same question: where the hell did April go? Having a rough time getting back into the swing of fiction writing again after a several-month hiatus. I’m trying to write a short story … Continue reading
How you fix stuff
It’s funny how you don’t hear about short story submissions for weeks at a time and then a couple of responses come back within an hour of each other. It’s like they’re conspiring or something. In this case, though, it … Continue reading
You’re the voice
Heard a funny Tom Petty anecdote on the radio this morning. He had a riff but no song. Kept playing it over and over again. Then he got the chorus, which ultimately became The Waiting is the Hardest Part, but … Continue reading
A good day for dragons
I received my contributor copy of The Crane House from Cemetery Dance last night and finally got a chance to read the story. My contribution is Chapter 5, so there was a lot that happened after I passed it on … Continue reading
RPM
I turned in my review of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County to FEARnet this weekend so you should see it in a day or two. I also posted reviews of Harbor Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh and The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King. … Continue reading
While it’s still cool
I was well prepared for yesterday afternoon’s rainstorm. I was once again on my bicycle at work. I watched the radar and saw the red and yellow patches emerge from the west. It grew overcast shortly after noon, but I … Continue reading
I like to ride my bicycle
We’re down to one car this week, so I had to dust off the bicycle this morning. Peel off the cobwebs. Pump up the tires. My commute is only a couple of miles, so it’s not bad, and the weather … Continue reading