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
Very well groomed for a crazy person
Knopf is releasing the Millennium Trilogy Deluxe Boxed Set just in time for Christmas. Nice looking unjacketed, clothbound boxed set of Stieg Larsson’s bestsellers. Accompanying the set is a fourth book, On Stieg Larsson, which the publisher was kind enough … Continue reading
As the SVU turns
I’ve been using my Kangaroo for two weeks. Time is zipping by so fast I thought it was only one week, but when I checked back on my earlier blogs I set myself straight. The Kangaroo is a desktop adjustable … Continue reading
Another fun-filled day in the six counties
When it remembers how to rain around here, it does it up in style. We had heavy rains overnight on Sunday, and more again through the night last night. Badly needed. Maybe now I can stop watering the lawn. I … Continue reading
Is this your monster?
For a while last night I wondered if we had goofed and that the trick-or-treaters had been out the night before. When I was young, living in eastern Canada, if Halloween was on a Sunday, trick-or-treating was done on Saturday … Continue reading
These are not taxi doors
I finished my review of Djibouti by Elmore Leonard and posted it on Onxy Reviews. I’m still reading Bad Boy by Peter Robinson. Next up is Against All Things Ending, the third of four volumes in the Final Chronicles of … Continue reading
Drive by. Nearly deported. This is just Day 1.
One of my Canadian cousins contacted me via Facebook today to say that he was watching the Biography Channel’s Stephen King episode that I was interviewed for earlier this year. It’s an update to the previous biography, which was about … Continue reading
Acting your age
To celebrate the publication of Tuttu su Stephen King, today’s entry will be written entirely in Italian. However, because I have cleverly embedded a babelfish in the post, you won’t notice the difference. I’m told that dvd.it has this translation … Continue reading
My hobby is silence
Tutto su Stephen King should be available tomorrow. My first work to be translated into Italian, to the best of my knowledge. I finished Djibouti by Elmore Leonard this weekend. I enjoyed the book overall, though there was one decision … Continue reading
It’s all an act with dogs
A little more TV catchup. Thankfully Fringe wasn’t on last night or I’d be swamped. CSI took on hoarders last night in a way that cable television doesn’t. That was a woman with a serious obsession, wanting even the dead … Continue reading
A heavy traffic zone
I’ve become a stand-up guy. My kangaroo arrived last night. The UPS guy wrestled it to the door. It was in a massive box, and weighed about 40 lbs. Solid construction, and the wooden platform matches my work desk perfectly. … Continue reading