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
The Cure
Sold another short story today. Always a good feeling. I’ve been catching up with book reviews these past couple of mornings. Wrote the first draft of my next contribution to Dead Reckonings and posted reviews of Tess Gerritsen’s The Silent … Continue reading
Everybody dies in this movie
The Spirit of Poe is now available for Kindle. Only $3.99. I finished the second and third drafts of the new story I’m getting ready to submit. The first version was 5100 words and the third was 4100. Most of … Continue reading
You want more?
The Spirit of Poe is available at Amazon, finally, after some prolonged production delays. It contains my story “The Case of the Tell-tale Black Cat of Amontillado (with Zombies and an Ourang-Outang).” This collection, introduced by Dr. Barbara Cantalupo, offers … Continue reading
Two by two
The rain tapered off yesterday afternoon. I don’t think I used the windshield wipers on the way home from work. Then it started up again at about 3 a.m. and it has been pouring ever since. I had a call … Continue reading
It’s a kind of magic
I think I only had to mow the lawn two or three times all last summer because of the drought. I mowed a week ago Saturday before the rains came and I had to do the same thing again this … Continue reading
Books, Movies and TV
It was 100° the day we arrived in San Francisco, the tail end of a heat wave, but it moderated quickly after that. Most days the temperature was in the seventies and it was in the forties at night, which … Continue reading
Osteoporosis by Tom Piccirilli
My buddy Tom Piccirilli is doing a blog tour to promote his upcoming novel, The Last Kind Words (reviewed by me here). Suffice to say: I loved it and I hope it does gangbusters for him. For this stop on the … Continue reading
Outwit…outplay…outlast…out-dumb?
Episode 2 of the Lilja and Lou Podcast is now available. I talk about the red carpet premiere of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. I posted my review of The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli on the weekend. I … Continue reading
RPM
I turned in my review of Ghost Brothers of Darkland County to FEARnet this weekend so you should see it in a day or two. I also posted reviews of Harbor Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh and The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King. … Continue reading
While it’s still cool
I was well prepared for yesterday afternoon’s rainstorm. I was once again on my bicycle at work. I watched the radar and saw the red and yellow patches emerge from the west. It grew overcast shortly after noon, but I … Continue reading