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: Eureka
I like to ride my bicycle
We’re down to one car this week, so I had to dust off the bicycle this morning. Peel off the cobwebs. Pump up the tires. My commute is only a couple of miles, so it’s not bad, and the weather … Continue reading
Would you let this man fix your computer?
Yesterday morning I was awakened at 4 am by what sounded like hail, as part of an impressive rainstorm that heralded a cold front coming through. If the rain had been snow instead, it would have been a blizzard. In fact, they … Continue reading
A tiny little psychopath in Capri pants
The temperature starts going down again day by day this week. By the weekend we could be down to just over 90°. The 20% chance of rain for Friday is now down to 10%. More fires in the area, too. … Continue reading
I weep for Titan
Today is my last day as the “older man,” for a while. Tomorrow my wife joins me in the fifties. Will one of her gifts be a rainstorm? Remains to be seen. They keep promising rain, but then they back … Continue reading
I don’t like unpredictable
We’re still on target to have every day in August go over 100° and still mired in drought. We had rain last Sunday but nothing since then. Yesterday we broke the record for the number of triple digit days in … Continue reading
Tiny little woman in a Hyundai
My essay for Screem #23 came in at 6300 words in first draft. I’m 2/3 of the way through my first editing pass and it’s now down to 6050 words. I expect it will get tightened up a little more … Continue reading
Dead is Dead
Hot, hot, hotter than hot. And dry. But humid. Saps the energy out of you when you go outside. Long live A/C. Both The Closer and Rizzoli and Isles started with the disappearance of a young child. In both episodes, … Continue reading
Cruisin’ for…
Don stood us up. It veered south overnight so we haven’t seen any effects from the storm at all. Apparently Houston proper received significant rainfall, but not a drop where I live. Yet, anyway. Maybe we’ll see some overnight. Can … Continue reading
The old man is snoring
Another two editing passes through the new short story this morning. One pass usually ends up being a “flow” revision, where I suddenly discover that everything is okay, but it’s all in the wrong order. I move paragraphs around. I … Continue reading
Discovering the story
I’m about halfway through the new short story in progress and I just discovered what it’s really about. I often think I know what it’s about, but sometimes I figure out along the way that it’s actually about something else. … Continue reading