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: Criminal Minds
Do you remember the end of Jaws?
This morning, I started reading through the old work that I plan to renovate as a novella. It’s not going to look very much like it did in its original form, I believe. I posted my thoughts about Mystery by … Continue reading
Tales to warm your heart
I have very little Irish blood in me. Most of it is Scottish and English. A dollop of French. However, growing up in Canada, I was blessed with an abundance of Irish and Scottish music. The Irish Rovers, who were … Continue reading
Are you wearing pants?
Took the morning off from writing work to do paperwork instead. Every now and then I have to do that. This weekend I have a story to start, an essay to write and two stories to get back into submission. … Continue reading
History in the making?
Last night, I proofed the essay I’ve been working on and made only a handful of minor changes. This morning, after I keyed them in, I went through it one last time on-screen and deleted things that didn’t seem necessary, … Continue reading
I won all of them
More work on the essay this morning. I hope to have it whipped into shape after another day or two. It has a lot going on, discussing a novel and three movies, and I want to keep it under 4-5000 … Continue reading
It’s all just math
Did some more work on the essay I’m writing for a horror movie magazine. I hope to have a pretty decent first draft done by the end of the weekend. My buddy Dave from Overlook Connection sent me one of … Continue reading
Gold in them thar hills
Another editing pass through the work in progress. Trimmed by an additional 200 words. I’ll probably send it out tomorrow. For a long time I’ve had a story on the short list for consideration for inclusion in Thrillers 3, the … Continue reading
Heights, snakes and red-headed women
The new short story is at the upper limit in length of what I can review in a normal morning editing/writing session. I made it through the whole thing again today, whittling away about 200 words in the process, so … Continue reading
What happens in Vegas
Wrote 1000 words on the short story in progress this morning and have a very good idea of where it so going to go next and where it’s going after that. Not quite sure how it’s going to get wrapped … Continue reading
About Time
Yesterday was my lucky day, I guess. I won a free tire rotation by answering a trivia question on my local car dealer’s Facebook page, and when I got home I found a package containing both the hardcover and audio … Continue reading