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
Currying favor
Another round of revisions on the story in progress. Still not quite ready to send it off. Maybe tomorrow, if I get a chance to read it through completely this evening. The relationship between Gibbs and FBI agent Tobias Fornell … Continue reading
Any questions
Didn’t get the short story out the door like I planned. I started working my way through it one more time and made quite a few changes. Then when I was doing my morning calisthenics I came up with a … Continue reading
The new hot profession: Cleaner
I think I have the short ( now shorter) story ready to submit in the morning. It ended up at 5300 words. I think I might add a few back in and give it one last read-through. Then it’s on … Continue reading
Meep! Meep!
I got down within striking distance of my target word count for the work in progress. Somewhere just north of 5500 words. I have nearly a hundred words of purple prose marked for possible deletion, too. Literally purple. I colored … Continue reading
That sounds like a profile
I trimmed another 200 words from the story I’m working on this morning. This thing is going to be a lean, mean fighting machine when I’m done with it. Anorexic, even. So, another Survivor contestant opened his mouth at tribal … Continue reading
Is that “old lady” enough for you?
I reached the 6000 word mark on the story in progress, but it’s a downward mark. I started at 9600 words and am aiming at 5000-5500. Got rid of 700 words on the current pass, and I still have a … Continue reading
Fifties flashback
I can’t remember the last time the temperature was in the fifties, but that’s where it was overnight. I wish there was a pause button that would let me capture the current climate conditions and replay them day in and … Continue reading
Waiting for Godot
Halfway through the second pass, I trimmed another two hundred words from the story I’m trying to reduce to approximately 5000 words, getting me to 6700 from the original 9600. I think I can make it, but I foresee the … Continue reading
Killers
Houston Texans not so impressive today. I started watching at halftime, when it was 10-3, and it’s been downhill since. I’m trying to trim an old urban fantasy short story that has always been nearly 10,000 words long down enough … Continue reading
The Usual Insanity
Yesterday and today, the heat index hovered around 100°. It’s already hot when we get up in the morning. Thankfully, a cold front is coming through this weekend that means we’ll see overnight temps in the low 60s and a … Continue reading