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
Forget the original: just get a good copy
Yesterday I got all my rewrites done on the first 7000 words of the novella in progress to change one event and propagate its impact through the rest of the story. The way people react to a disappearance is perforce … Continue reading
A National Treasure
I started revising the section of the novella in progress that needs changing to come into line with my new theory of the story this morning, but I was interrupted by some business that required my attention so I didn’t … Continue reading
We all scream
I added another thousand words to the novella this morning, reaching 7000, but I think I’ve hit the breaking-off point. The old storyline isn’t going to serve me for this version so I’m ditching the rest of it and going … Continue reading
Blue eyes
Made some serious forward progress on the novella this morning, jumping from just under 4000 words to a tad over 6000 by the end of my session. Not all of them are new words, exactly. Since I’m revamping an old, … Continue reading
You call that a gun?
Working my way back into the novella by reading over and editing what I’ve already written. Tomorrow I should be able to tackle new material. I’ve been cutting mercilessly so far. I’m hoping that it will be a very lean … Continue reading
The reverse Hitchcock
90% of Texas is in a drought and no rain was expected in the coming days. We had very little in March and none so far in April. There was a 12% chance of precipitation today, which seems paltry given … Continue reading
Which way is out?
We had a stretch of fence between us and our neighbors replaced this week. It included a gate. When the workers were finishing up we went to survey the results. Fenced looked good, but the gate was installed backwards! The … Continue reading
Pick the devil you run with
Two or three weeks ago I received a letter from Elections Canada telling me I was being dropped from the registration list. Two days ago I received my voting package for the forthcoming election. Mixed message? Do I dare vote? … Continue reading
How could I get that wrong?
Broke my promise to myself: I didn’t get around to working on the novella this morning. I got my “assignments” for World Horror in Austin in a few weeks so I had to do some prep work. The program hasn’t … Continue reading
Femme fatale
Got tangled up with paperwork this morning, so I didn’t get back to the novella yet again. Tomorrow, I promise (myself). After several days with the A/C activated and actually having it run a few times, we had to turn … Continue reading