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
Only the Shadow knows
Just finished an interview about The Stephen King Illustrated Companion for an Italian publication. I expect it will get translated, so I’m looking forward to re-translating it to English to see what route my words take. I started Against All … Continue reading
The Tao of Maddy
I received a very nice check in the mail last night from my agent for the second printing of The Stephen King Illustrated Companion. The neat thing about the way this project worked was that B&N bought all the copies … Continue reading
Done listening to dead men
One of the fun things about traveling is the pot-luck you get with change in airport concessions. After my trip to Boston I discovered that instead of a nickel I’d received a 5 centavos coin from Ecuador. I wrote and … Continue reading
The truth is out there
My Storytellers Unplugged essay Contests? No Contest is now live for your reading enjoyment. There’s a new review of On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association at Famous Monsters of Filmland today. The book continues to sell … Continue reading
Two Beavers Are Better Than One
My interview at Level Best Books went up today. Check it out. I talk a bit about setting stories in New England and about writing in general. Isn’t that one of the most handsome covers you’ve ever seen? I think … Continue reading
Thin Ice
I spent most of Friday evening lying through my teeth. I was in Boston/Dedham for Crime Bake, and people were wondering why I came all the way from Texas for a New England conference for crime writers and readers. I … Continue reading
Crossing swords
I’m getting ready to leave for the airport to fly to Boston, where I will be attending Crime Bake for the next couple of days. I’ll report on it when I get back, and will probably post tweets if the … Continue reading
Three-headed grandchild
Today is our 15th wedding anniversary. Online research tells me that it is our crystal anniversary, which is appropriate enough for a crystallographer. Just a few days after the anniversary of the discovery of X-ray, too. Appropriate enough for an … Continue reading
Bad things happen in darkness
Elton John no longer feels the need to make hit records. He’s had his long run, so now he can be self indulgent and do what he wants. So what happens with The Union? It’s his biggest hit in decades. … Continue reading
Adventures in Modern Recording
I got my new iPod rebuilt this weekend. Took a while to restore over 6000 songs and make sure the album graphics were there, too. I know I could have skipped that step but I figured if I was going … Continue reading