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: House
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
Lucky I brought my axe-cane
I’m making decent headway on the story that I need to get in the mail by Friday to meet the deadline. I wrote 1200 words yesterday morning, deleted 100 of them this morning upon revision and added another 1000 or … Continue reading
How to defuse a dirty bomb
Decided to wait another day before submitting the essay. I made some more changes to it this morning and want to do at least one more complete readthrough before sending it off. I received an encouraging e-mail from an editor … Continue reading
Abominable
Received my annual invitation to contribute to the 2012 Stephen King calendar last night. This will be my fourth year participating in this fun little project. This morning, I made some minor revisions to the story I submitted recently and … Continue reading
Spoilers (not really)
I did my first full editing pass/read-through of the work in progress. As suspected, I introduced a few glitches by time-shifting the story a couple of times. I caught four or five of them on this pass. However, I think … Continue reading
Did the butler do it?
Here we go again. A nice, sunny day, highs in the fifties. Not summer weather by any stretch of the imagination, but I can go outside without needing a jacket. And then tomorrow we get hit with an 80% chance … Continue reading
Falling into place
Many inexplicable things take place during the writing process. That zone you get into when the story is just flowing out of you when you aren’t even stopping to think of what comes next, for example. For the past several … Continue reading
In Da House
Had another set of anthology guidelines added to my to-do list. This one doesn’t have a set deadline, which means I better not mess around or else it might fill up. However, I need to do some reading and research … Continue reading
Aw, man!
Jorge Garcia was a guest star on How I Met Your Mother last night. He played “The Blitz,” an old college buddy of Ted and Marshall’s, a guy who always leaves just before something totally awesome happens. For the first … 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