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
The slush pile
I received my contributor copy of Screem magazine yesterday. Haven’t had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but I plan to this weekend. The editor has invited me to write for them again, so now I have … Continue reading
Bad things are fixin’ to happen
The week after a con is always a busy one, just scrambling to get back to where I was before I left. I don’t think I’m going to get any writing done this week. I have to read about 40 … Continue reading
WHC 2011 is History: Part 2
In the elevator on Saturday morning I found myself saying that I was on my way to a panel on how to kill people. Only at World Horror could you say something like that and not attract strange looks. The … Continue reading
WHC 2011 is history: PART 1
I drove to Austin a little less than a week ago to attend World Horror 2011. I got on the road around 9 a.m. because I had to pick up Guest of Honor Joe Hill at the Austin airport shortly … Continue reading
Enter Screeming
I’m back from World Horror in Austin. I’ll write more about the convention later when I can think straighter. Anyone who’s been to a conference like this will understand that there’s a certain amount of disorientation after returning to real … Continue reading
The horror! The horror!
I’m driving to Austin tomorrow morning for World Horror 2011. It takes a little over three hours, depending on the traffic. I have to be there by 12:30 to pick someone up at the airport. I’m just about ready for the … Continue reading
Madness is what genius looks like to a tiny mind
We spent the weekend in a beachfront house in Surfside, Texas, which is on the Gulf of Mexico about 45 miles down the coast from Galveston. This is our fourth trip to that community, and our third staying in the … Continue reading
What do you call a duel between three people? A trial?
With World Horror less than a week today, there’s lots of business to do to keep me busy (and away from writing as much as I’d like). I’ll be leaving for Austin on Wednesday to get there in time for … Continue reading
Sisterhood of the traveling House
Added another 600 words this morning, part of which was revision to earlier text to put in something that I had overlooked. I want to get this done by the end of the month because I have a couple of … Continue reading
The chin
Approaching 10,000 words on the novella. Thought of a couple of things that I need to address, so I’m going to have to backtrack a little on my next session. I’m still not sure exactly how the story is going … Continue reading