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
Category Archives: books
Endings are hard
Awoke this morning to news of another short story sale. This one is for a flash fiction piece that was one of the winners of a contest. The official announcement hasn’t been made yet, so I won’t say where until … Continue reading
This is a world where nothing is solved
On Friday, we went to see Gordon Lightfoot at the Cullen Performance Hall at the University of Houston. I’ve never seen him live before, but growing up in Canada, he was as omnipresent as snow and moose. The hall was … Continue reading
Buck jumping and having fun
Happy 2014! Doesn’t that sound like a line out of a science fiction novel? We had a stay-at-home New Years Eve. Fondue and other finger foods, beaucoup du vin, a jigsaw puzzle/mystery game, and a marathon viewing of the final … Continue reading
Out of the Cold
I’ve known this for months but can only talk about it now that the table of contents has been released. My short story “The Honey Trap” will appear in the Mystery Writers of America anthology Ice Cold, edited by Jeffery Deaver … Continue reading
In a couple of years it will be 3.1415
Happy Pi(e) day. Two years from now we’ll get 3/14/15 @ 9:26:53. I used to have the number memorized to about 15 places after the decimal point, but I’ve since allocated those memory cells to something else. Or to nothing … Continue reading
Vacation’s over
My long vacation is nearly at an end. I’ve been off work since the Friday before Christmas, but I have to go back for a three-day week tomorrow. Many of the daytime hours for the first week or so were … Continue reading
Announcing: The Dark Tower Companion
I’ve been a little coy about what I’m working on, but it’s time to announce my third book. The Dark Tower Companion will be published by New American Library (Penguin) in April. This massive companion is 50% longer than The Road … Continue reading
The Commish loses weight. And his moral compass.
I received two atypical rejection letters this week. The first was for a story that had been with the market for about a year. It was a good market, so I was patient, but I queried about it recently, to … Continue reading
In the Crowd
My essay Faces in the Crowd is now up at FEARNet. It tracks the evolution of King’s new short story collaboration with Stewart O’Nan, “A Face in the Crowd,” essentially from the moment King got the idea in 2004 until … Continue reading
Everyone sounds like Meryl Streep
I spent most of the weekend finishing and editing an essay for Screem magazine. I’m waiting for interview answers to finalize it. It’s currently at about 5200 words, plus a sidebar article that’s another 1000 or so. I finished Fallen by Karin … Continue reading