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
Hard Freeze
With my most urgent deadline met, I spent the morning writing session today catching up on email. I’m one of the judges of a fiction contest this year, so there was correspondence pertaining to that that needed my attention, plus a bunch … Continue reading
Assault
I wrote a 3000-word short story beginning to end this weekend. I’ve been contemplating the story for weeks, and I even made a false start of a few pages on it a while back, but I finally figured out what … Continue reading
For your consideration: anthologies
The recommendation period for the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards is winding down. In fact, it ends on January 15th. I don’t campaign for my own work, as a rule, but I would like to advocate for a few anthologies. That … Continue reading
Ringing in the new
Shivers VI has started to ship. The latest in the long-running series of anthologies contains Stephen King’s rare story “The Crate,” which was part of Creepshow, “A Special Place” by Peter Straub, a novella that relates to his most recent … Continue reading
Captain Mal still rocks
Another nice review of Evolve, along with a contest where you can win a copy of the anthology. I submitted a new story in response to an invitation back in December and received word from the editor that it was … Continue reading
That 70s Castle Show
For several years, I’ve been trying to remember the title and author of a book I read in high school. I would get close, but it kept slipping away. I thought the author’s first name might be Eric and that … Continue reading
Stammering
I finished I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman while traveling last week. She did a very good job of implying that there was something undisclosed about the protagonist’s story that would come out during her meetings with her victimizer, … Continue reading
The emperor has no clothes — and neither did we
Happy New Year, everyone on this 1/1/11. Instead of watching the same dreary old countdown shows on TV (I can’t believe CNN keeps inviting Kathy Griffin back and that Anderson Cooper agrees to appear with her), we watched the Doctor … Continue reading
Merry Men
I read something on the order of 66 books this year, including the two that are still in progress: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (on my iPod) and I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman. If you’re interested in … Continue reading
Any other name
Our daughter decided we should watch Meet Me in St. Louis last night. Haven’t seen it for years. I’d forgotten how creepy and strange the Halloween scene is. And that long tracking shot when Tootie is walking away from the … Continue reading