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: Fringe
What do you do when you lose? Party harder!
I was in high school the year of the incident at Three Mile Island. Though it was all over the news at the time, it seemed a long ways off. Over a thousand miles, in fact. However, at the end … Continue reading
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Finished the first draft of the essay that’s due in a few weeks. 5000 words, though who’s counting? I wasn’t given an upper limit. I suspect it’s going to grow a bit on my first round of revisions, then perhaps … Continue reading
Unstoppable
After a few more review passes, I submitted the newest short story to the editor. It was a little bit presumptuous, but just a little. This is for an invitation-only anthology and one of the other contributors asked me to … Continue reading
Make sure they spell my name right
Almost finished doing the taxes and looking forward to a refund, which is always nice. Listening to Split Enz and getting ready for a productive day of writing. The plan: finish first draft of short story, revise proposal, get two … Continue reading
Brief notes
A nice review of When the Night Comes Down from Mario Guslandi at Horror World. I’ll answer to Ben, if you like. I wrote to the Canadian Archives in Ottawa sometime last year to get copies of one of my uncle’s … Continue reading
To coin a word
Received my contributor copy of Dead Reckonings 8 on Friday. It contains my review of Dan Simmons’ Black Hills, which I submitted for issue 7 but got held over. Mildly chagrined by the conspicuous typo on the cover. I received … Continue reading
Where was the flux capacitor?
I wrote a 600-word short story this morning for NPR’s three-minute stories competition. I only found out about it a few days ago, thanks to someone’s link on Facebook, and it took me until today to come up with an … 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
Only the Shadow knows
Just finished an interview about The Stephen King Illustrated Companion for an Italian publication. I expect it will get translated, so I’m looking forward to re-translating it to English to see what route my words take. I started Against All … Continue reading