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
Superbowl? Make my day
Another busy, busy weekend. They’re all going to be that way until the end of March. Then life will return to something approaching normal, I guess. However, it looks like I’m up for a trip to Japan in April, so … Continue reading
The next one is coming faster
I’m not quite sure what it means if the groundhog predicts 6 more weeks of winter when we haven’t really had any to speak of thus far. It’s been over 70° and flirting with 80 for the past several days, … Continue reading
And then the skies turned black
My wife called me the other morning on her way to work to say that she’d heard there was a tornado warning (not a watch, which is less urgent) for our county. About 10 minutes later, I got an automated … Continue reading
They’re all going to laugh at you
We supposedly have an impressive rainstorm heading our way, one that could produce 1-5″ of precipitation in the next 24 hours. We call that showers. We call that welcome, in fact. Despite the rain that we’ve had in the past … Continue reading
At Last
I received my contributor copies of Cemetery Dance #65 in the mail last night. It’s been a while. Dear headline writers. “At Last Singer Etta James Dead” does not read to many people the way you intended. I hope next … Continue reading
A time-traveling island? How novel.
Got a little behind schedule this month, so my Storytellers Unplugged essay is a revised rerun: The Day Job. Originally posted in 2005, it is still as true for me today as it was back then. We’ve had enough rain … Continue reading
They pull me back in again
Until last night, I’d never seen a single episode of The Sopranos. Last fall I bought the Season 1 DVD set and we just got around to sampling it now. We watched the first two episodes. Interesting. Tony’s mother is … Continue reading
I’m speaking Danish. No. You aren’t.
Making good headway on the work in progress. I see I have roughly 80 days before my deadline. That’s ok. I wrote all of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion in half that time so I should be in good shape. … Continue reading
Sitting pretty
That’s my Christmas gift over there, a recliner. The fact that it reclines is the least important aspect. See the way the back is recessed? The lower ridge supports my lower back, which has been causing me problems for a … Continue reading
No sheet, Sherlock
Devoted my attention to a single writing project this morning and got a substantial amount of work done. I’m pleased. Also pleased that my first entry in the 2012 writing “ledger’ where I record my information for Schedule C is … Continue reading