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
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I’ll have no tra-la-las at my gala
Tons of work done this weekend. I finished off a 6000-word piece for a project that is still pending. The publisher is waiting for the green light but once it’s given we have to hit the ground running so I … Continue reading
The bread shall rise again
Better luck with the bread machine last night. The yeast in the old packet I’d used the night before had apparently moved on to wherever yeast goes when it dies. Bread and molasses for breakfast this morning. Yum! (My wife … Continue reading
Into Darkness
I made a loaf of bread during the football game yesterday afternoon. I found an old packet of yeast in the deli drawer, so I decided to use that up. Bad move. Might as well have left the yeast out … Continue reading
It’s always dark when you reach the cabin in the woods
I can’t remember the last time I went to the movie theater three times in a week. Three times in a month, even. My friend Danel Olson, editor of the Exotic Gothic series, asked me if I wanted to see … Continue reading
Galleys in da house
Our new elliptical trainer wasn’t the only thing that arrived at the house last night. I received a box from my editor containing a few galleys of my forthcoming book, The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic … Continue reading
Some assembly required
As we get older and more comfortable, we are sometimes willing to pay people to do things. We don’t have a maid and I still cut the lawn. However, when we ordered a new exercise machine recently and were given … Continue reading
Shaping stories
I’m really enjoying this new short story I’m working on. I’m coming at it from all angles and writing it in a non-linear fashion. I don’t feel like I’m spinning it out from beginning to end. Instead, it feels like … Continue reading
Coulda been a contender
The score was 17-13 at half time. I had to run to the grocery store for a few essentials. I figured I could do it without missing any of the game; however, by the time I got back, the third … Continue reading
The one thing needful
I met Peter David at Jekyll & Hyde in New York City in 2006. I was in the city on a family vacation. One of our few pre-scheduled events was a trip to Radio City Music Hall for “Harry, Carrie … Continue reading
Talk talk talk
Back to reality today. The notion of not shaving for over a week seems like a good idea at the time, until the day of reckoning and all that growth (scary how grey it is!) has to go. After the … Continue reading