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
Bonenkai
Our Japanese parent company often contributes a page to our monthly intramural newsletter. This is a chatty document that discusses local weather in our various sister companies’ territories, pets, parties, etc. This month, their article was on bonenkai, which is … Continue reading
The S-Team
For some reason or other, I never watched the TV series The A-Team. I was aware of it, and knew a bit about the characters, but I ignored it, which is strange because I liked George Peppard, especially when he … Continue reading
Ho! Ho! Holy cow it’s warm!
The past two nights it’s been down to near freezing. Tomorrow it will be 72 and from Tuesday through Thursday, at least, it will flirt with 80°, going only down to the 60s overnight. Weird, weird weather. Had a brief … Continue reading
An audience of one
My monthly Storytellers Unplugged essay went live this morning: Write for the audience; write for yourself. I finished Savages by Don Winslow yesterday. Loved 95% of the book and hated the ending. Really hated it. Started I’d Know You Anywhere … Continue reading
Shortlisted
Several weeks ago I wrote a 350 word story for the New Scientist 2010 flash fiction contest, which had the theme Forgotten futures. Stories about futures that never were. Alternate history, in other words. I found out two weeks ago … Continue reading
Vigilantes in Love
I finished Against All Things Ending by Stephen R. Donaldson this weekend (review pending) and downloaded Savages by Don Winslow to my Kindle. I’ve been hearing other people rave about how good it was, so I decided to give it a … Continue reading
See Forever Eyes
Rejection letters still burn. After all this time. They suck. Oh, well. Something to submit elsewhere this weekend. I have to put steroid eye drops into my left eye four times a day for the next three days and three … Continue reading
Scarlet herrings
I came up with the theme for my next Storytellers Unplugged essay yesterday and wrote the first few paragraphs of it this morning. It’s not due to be posted until a week from tomorrow, but I like to get these … Continue reading
Canadian air is coming
According to the teaser on the TV monitor at the gym today, Canadian Air is coming. Don’t they know that airline was bought out by Air Canada nearly a decade ago? I guess they’re alluding to the fact that it’s … Continue reading
Today’s evidence
This morning I found a new market for the story that was rejected yesterday and then wrote a brand new 250-word flash fiction story for the CBC Literary Awards flash fiction contest. They provide a prompt of a few words … Continue reading