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
Exit. Stage left.
Started working on the new/old novella in earnest this morning. I qualify it that way because, though it is starting from a broken novel that dates back a few years, it will end up being a lot different from that … Continue reading
Ups and downs
Conducted business regarding three different short story submissions this weekend. On Friday I received the check for a story that will appear in the new market AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. I’m not exactly sure when it will be published, … Continue reading
There is hope in raindrops
Poked around at the novella renovation that I want to do next, but not much forward progress yet. Rewrote a couple of pages, updated them to a more contemporary setting and technology (the story was inspired by a very creepy … Continue reading
Do you remember the end of Jaws?
This morning, I started reading through the old work that I plan to renovate as a novella. It’s not going to look very much like it did in its original form, I believe. I posted my thoughts about Mystery by … Continue reading
Tales to warm your heart
I have very little Irish blood in me. Most of it is Scottish and English. A dollop of French. However, growing up in Canada, I was blessed with an abundance of Irish and Scottish music. The Irish Rovers, who were … Continue reading
What do you do when you lose? Party harder!
I was in high school the year of the incident at Three Mile Island. Though it was all over the news at the time, it seemed a long ways off. Over a thousand miles, in fact. However, at the end … Continue reading
Spring ahead
According to one item I read, a software glitch made iPhones fall back an hour yesterday morning instead of springing ahead. My iPod got it right, so I wonder why the phones wouldn’t. No daylight savings today—a cool front passed … Continue reading
Elvis has left the building
I’m a news junkie under normal circumstances. I can easily get lost for hours reading online newspapers or watching CNN, though more of the former than the latter. I’m still a big fan of the print media, even if that … Continue reading
You can go home again, but maybe you shouldn’t
Rolling right along with the new work in progress. Wrote 1700 words this morning, which is a very decent output given the small chunk of time I have. I love scenes with a lot of dialog. They move along at … Continue reading
Lucky I brought my axe-cane
I’m making decent headway on the story that I need to get in the mail by Friday to meet the deadline. I wrote 1200 words yesterday morning, deleted 100 of them this morning upon revision and added another 1000 or … Continue reading