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
Anger is always the shortest distance to a mistake
Will the Canucks do it tonight? Win the Stanley Cup for the first time ever and bring it back to Canada for the first time in nearly two decades? Their performance in Boston hasn’t been stellar so far, and they … Continue reading
Five films
We had a movie binge weekend. In addition to watching Doctor Who (about which more later) and a Graham Norton rerun we saw: True Grit. I’ve never seen the original, not being a huge John Wayne fan. It’s hard to … Continue reading
And a hockey game broke out
When I was a kid, Hockey Night in Canada was a mainstay of my Saturday nights. There was always a game and we always watched. So long as “my” team was winning, that is. If they weren’t performing well, I’d … Continue reading
On a horse with no name
Houston set a record yesterday for the highest temperature ever seen in June: 105°. Not just for the day, for the entire month. We also heard thunder rumbling all afternoon, but that didn’t give us any rain. The rain did … Continue reading
Days are numbers
If we had six fingers on each hand and had adopted a base-12 numbering system, today I would be 42. In binary, I’m 110010. Yes, it’s one of those dreaded “significant” birthdays. The kind that ends in a zero. And, no, … Continue reading
Paging Madam Chairman
The long weekend is over and I feel like I got a lot accomplished. We cooked some great meals on the grill, though it was two flocking hot to eat outside (flocking is a euphemism I picked up from the … Continue reading
Ain’t nobody here but us…
Wrote another thousand words of the story in progress and I have the rest all mapped out in my head except for one piece. One connection that the detective has to make and act on before the big reveal at … Continue reading
Solved the mystery
One advantage of being in a drought: you don’t have to mow the lawn. At all. I mowed it once back in March or April to get rid of the shaggy look it had acquired over the course of the … Continue reading
Does Red have some company?
Drought, day 180 (rough estimate). No relief in sight. Finally got around to watching the Criminal Minds finale. I thought from the opening they were going to riff on Matheson’s Duel, with a killer truck driver. Turns out the truck … Continue reading
Co-starring a dog
Got a lot done on the novella in progress this weekend. I have until the end of next weekend to finish it off. Looks like I’ll make it after all. I’ve been away from it for a while, but when … Continue reading