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
CSI: Boston
We’ve been on a run of >100° days. I think we’ll only hit 97° today. What a relief. I moved offices at the day job yesterday for the first time in 10 years. My new one is upstairs and at … Continue reading
Tiny little woman in a Hyundai
My essay for Screem #23 came in at 6300 words in first draft. I’m 2/3 of the way through my first editing pass and it’s now down to 6050 words. I expect it will get tightened up a little more … Continue reading
Dead is Dead
Hot, hot, hotter than hot. And dry. But humid. Saps the energy out of you when you go outside. Long live A/C. Both The Closer and Rizzoli and Isles started with the disappearance of a young child. In both episodes, … Continue reading
Oh, great. Walt’s in his underwear again
I think I’ve got all the research done that I need to start writing my essay. I want to finish it up by the weekend so I can get to work on that book thing I’m supposed to do. Hot … Continue reading
Cruisin’ for…
Don stood us up. It veered south overnight so we haven’t seen any effects from the storm at all. Apparently Houston proper received significant rainfall, but not a drop where I live. Yet, anyway. Maybe we’ll see some overnight. Can … Continue reading
Failing Murder 101
Seems more and more likely that Tropical Storm Don, also known in yesterday’s post as the godfather, will hit the coast well south of us. The local weather prognosticators have doubts that we’ll see any rain from the system at all. … Continue reading
The godfather
Remember all that rainfall we haven’t received over the past nine months? The drought? The sixteen inch deficit for 2011 to date? There’s a decent chance we might make up most of it later on this week. It’s early days, … Continue reading
NECon gold
I spent the last four days in Bristol, Rhode Island, attending NECon 31. This was my fifth or six time at NECon. I’ll have to do the research sometime to figure it out for sure. I know I’ve been to … Continue reading
The old man is snoring
Another two editing passes through the new short story this morning. One pass usually ends up being a “flow” revision, where I suddenly discover that everything is okay, but it’s all in the wrong order. I move paragraphs around. I … Continue reading
Six Feet Over
I finished the first draft of the new short story on Sunday. Came in a little over at 2650 words. Then I did a slash and burn edit. Lots of black ink on the pages when I was done, most … Continue reading