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: Survivor
How to lose that snarky attitude in no time
My latest essay/review is up on FEARnet. It’s called ROOM 237: Sometimes a Cigar Is a Moon Rocket, in which I review the documentary film wherein five unseen narrators discuss their, um, unique interpretations of the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining. It’s … Continue reading
You still look like Ava Gardner
I received a couple of finished copies of The Dark Tower Companion this week. It’s the first time I’ve seen the cover with King’s blurb laid in. It feels great to see this project finally coming to fruition. It will … Continue reading
I’m actually feeling a whole lot better now
I keep adding things to my writing to-do list. Some of them are on me—anthologies to which I want to submit, but it’s not the end of the world if I don’t. Others, though, are firm commitments. One of them … Continue reading
A whale of a finale
I spent much of Saturday responding to a series of interview questions. The interview will appear online in January. Links will, of course, be provided. I also polished off my Storytellers Unplugged essay, “Not the time to rewrite your text,” … Continue reading
And then there were four
In a recent interview, Stephen King talks about how he develops novels. As he goes to sleep at night, he tells himself the story, getting a little farther each night. (I first heard and wrote about this approach when I … Continue reading
Proof
Winter is coming, they say. We may get temperatures in the 30s after the weekend. Can’t happen soon enough. It’s going to be over 80 all weekend. No wonder I’m “bah humbug” when it comes to Christmas. It’s hard to … Continue reading
Twenty-First Century King
I’ve been writing and publishing book reviews since 1999. It all started when a friend of mine became an editor with a community newspaper in a town near ours. He asked me if I would contribute a review every now … Continue reading
Eye of the Tiger
I think I wrote a song in my dreams last night. I woke up remembering only the final line and melody, and it was nothing I was familiar with. The more I mentally repeated that line, the less well it … Continue reading
Voted off the island
I almost didn’t watch the election coverage on Tuesday night. I couldn’t imagine watching all the talking heads trying to come up with something interesting to say for hours on end whilst waiting for results to come in. I picked … Continue reading
My weekend — spoken for
The show goes on. My publisher has no power. My editor has no power and has had to relocate. But still they manage to get the copyedited manuscript for my next book to me. So, now I know what I’m … Continue reading