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
A tiny little psychopath in Capri pants
The temperature starts going down again day by day this week. By the weekend we could be down to just over 90°. The 20% chance of rain for Friday is now down to 10%. More fires in the area, too. … Continue reading
Nothing flashed red
A hundred and two today. Twenty percent chance of rain later on in the week. Good times. My wife had jury duty yesterday and ended up in the first row of a panel being considered for a murder trial. That … Continue reading
Two trips to Berlin in one weekend
Got a lot of work done on the work in progress. Crossed the 15,000 word threshold this morning. Better than I anticipated. The heat has returned and we’re scheduled to reach or surpass 100° over the next few days. No … Continue reading
Retro redneck
Now that the temperatures are no longer in triple digits, everything’s on fire. The humidity and temperature have both fallen over the last week or so, but we have wildfires in the area and some of my coworkers are under … Continue reading
Of course Roland drives an Infiniti
My social networking has slowed down lately. I’ve been lax about updating this blog, I spend almost no time on Facebook and I’ve completely ignored Google+ after signing up for it. Twitter is about the only medium that I’m keeping … Continue reading
Who’ll start the rain?
We can’t even buy a tropical storm these days. At the beginning of the week they threatened/promised that we would get 3-5″ of rain this weekend thanks to the disturbance in the gulf. Now they say we’ll be lucky to … Continue reading
I weep for Titan
Today is my last day as the “older man,” for a while. Tomorrow my wife joins me in the fifties. Will one of her gifts be a rainstorm? Remains to be seen. They keep promising rain, but then they back … Continue reading
Your call is important to us
This weekend I started and completed a 950-word essay for a new project that should be announced later on this week. On Saturday, while Irene was bearing down on the East Coast, we tied for the highest temperature ever recorded … Continue reading
I don’t like unpredictable
We’re still on target to have every day in August go over 100° and still mired in drought. We had rain last Sunday but nothing since then. Yesterday we broke the record for the number of triple digit days in … Continue reading
Colin Maloney’s bad day
I finished most of what I set out to do this weekend. The one thing I didn’t do was go see Cowboys & Aliens. I was going to do a doubleheader with Rise of the Planet of the Apes but … Continue reading