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: Burn Notice
Ho! Ho! Holy cow it’s warm!
The past two nights it’s been down to near freezing. Tomorrow it will be 72 and from Tuesday through Thursday, at least, it will flirt with 80°, going only down to the 60s overnight. Weird, weird weather. Had a brief … Continue reading
See Forever Eyes
Rejection letters still burn. After all this time. They suck. Oh, well. Something to submit elsewhere this weekend. I have to put steroid eye drops into my left eye four times a day for the next three days and three … Continue reading
I failed the test, didn’t I?
It’s been a productive writing week. I submitted one story last weekend, a substantial rewrite of an existing manuscript. Then I wrote and revised and submitted another story during the week. Finally, today I did a rewrite of a third … 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
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