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
Domesticity
Winter hasn’t loosed its hold on us yet. It was down to 38° last night, though it’s a pleasant 65° today. Down into the forties tonight, with highs in the sixties and seventies for the next several days. I can … Continue reading
Are you wearing pants?
Took the morning off from writing work to do paperwork instead. Every now and then I have to do that. This weekend I have a story to start, an essay to write and two stories to get back into submission. … Continue reading
History in the making?
Last night, I proofed the essay I’ve been working on and made only a handful of minor changes. This morning, after I keyed them in, I went through it one last time on-screen and deleted things that didn’t seem necessary, … Continue reading
How to defuse a dirty bomb
Decided to wait another day before submitting the essay. I made some more changes to it this morning and want to do at least one more complete readthrough before sending it off. I received an encouraging e-mail from an editor … Continue reading
Bow ring
One more editing pass on the new essay and it will be ready to send in to the editor. It ended up somewhere in the vicinity of 5500 words. That’s two 5000-word documents I’ve completed in the past couple of … Continue reading
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Finished the first draft of the essay that’s due in a few weeks. 5000 words, though who’s counting? I wasn’t given an upper limit. I suspect it’s going to grow a bit on my first round of revisions, then perhaps … Continue reading
I won all of them
More work on the essay this morning. I hope to have it whipped into shape after another day or two. It has a lot going on, discussing a novel and three movies, and I want to keep it under 4-5000 … Continue reading
It’s all just math
Did some more work on the essay I’m writing for a horror movie magazine. I hope to have a pretty decent first draft done by the end of the weekend. My buddy Dave from Overlook Connection sent me one of … Continue reading
First you’ll need to grep the log file
One (more) great thing about being Canadian: First, libraries buy copies of your books and stock them on their shelves. Then the Public Lending Right Commission pays you, every year, based on a sampling of how many libraries stock your … Continue reading
Abominable
Received my annual invitation to contribute to the 2012 Stephen King calendar last night. This will be my fourth year participating in this fun little project. This morning, I made some minor revisions to the story I submitted recently and … Continue reading