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
Who Killed Rosie Larsen?
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review published my short story Matthias Comes Home From the War today. AE is a relatively new pro-paying market and I’m very happy to help the launch their third issue. Didn’t do much writing this … Continue reading
It’s there, then it’s gone
Finished up revisions to the second short story that I had to proof this week and got it back to the editor. That’s probably about as much writing work as I’ll get done today. Got some very good news from … Continue reading
Blew By You
Ended up having to proof two short stories. I received the proofs of “Red Planet” for Evolve 2 yesterday as well as the other story I mentioned previously. I got one of them finished and back to the editor this … Continue reading
A Star is Born
Spent the entire morning session vetting editorial comments for a short story that will be published shortly. Quite a lot of tracked changes, most of which I’m okay with, but I need to make sure that the few deletions don’t … Continue reading
Burden of … poof!
I finished Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale. Now reading Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. I didn’t know much about him until a recent 60 Minutes profile. I like reading books by people who are clearly smarter and more widely read … Continue reading
On the corner of black and white
Unexpectedly cool these past couple of days. Barely into the seventies and down to the low fifties at night. I know not many people will sympathize, but after a few days in the 80s when we had to run the … Continue reading
Tea for two (thousand)
Finally making some real headway on the novella in progress after some serious renovations. So far I changed it from first person to third person, changed that person from a woman to a man and gave him a sidekick because … Continue reading
Penguin -> Peahen
Some days are lost to writing because you have to look after real life every now and then. Spent most of yesterday running around getting my car tended to. It’s not something I have to do very often, given that … Continue reading
A Flea in Her Ear
I skipped my morning writing session today. Didn’t plan to, but a few minutes before the alarm went off at 5 a.m. I reset it to 6:30. I normally catch up on sleep on the weekend but I have to … Continue reading
Is there a doctorate in the house?
I don’t often write about personal things on this blog, but an exception needs to be made here. Yesterday afternoon I attended my wife’s doctoral dissertation defense. It was the culmination of a number of years of hard, hard work. … Continue reading