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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The year in review
Goodbye to 2012, which was a pretty good year, and hello to 2013, which already has one thing going for it: it’s the first year since 1987 where all four digits are unique. On the reading front, I started 76 … Continue reading
And nobody came
The cold front arrived in full force this morning. It was 28° when I got up, and I heard there was snow in north Texas, as much as 2-5″. None here, of course. I finished tidying up an interview I … Continue reading
Crazy diamonds
While I was working on my computer upgrade yesterday, I watched The Story of Wish You Were Here, which began its life as a VH1 rockumentary or some such and is now available on DVD. It’s a fascinating look at the … Continue reading
Longmire with an ‘e’
After my overexposure to sun last week while riding around in northern California with the top down on our rental convertible, I’ve gone through three distinct stages of peeling. (Too much information? I find it fascinating!). First, there was my … Continue reading
Up, up and away
I’ve been away on vacation for the past week. Got back home around midnight last night after a week in northern California. Even though I took my iPad and had WiFi, it’s taking me a while to get caught up. … Continue reading
Death is a lonely business
Whenever people ask me who has influenced my writing, they’re generally surprised by my response. After waffling on about how everyone I ever read has contributed to my style and approach, I generally cite one author as the greatest influence, … Continue reading
Squeal like a zombie
I solved another problem with my message board that means I won’t be so hasty to migrate to new software, which takes a load of work off my plate. The main problem with the YaBB board (other than its habit … Continue reading
Beginnings
My message board appears to be offline today. I’m not quite sure what the issue is. If it doesn’t resolve itself by tomorrow, I will explore further. I have been planning to replace this old, clunky Perl board with a … Continue reading
Probably a happy ending
Switched reading gears to a couple of short story collections. I started Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake collection yesterday and read about 1/5 of Rage Against the Night, the benefit anthology for Rocky Wood. Got as far as my own story, which I read … Continue reading
It takes a village to run a house
I spent an hour on Skype yesterday with Lou Sytsma and Hans-Åke Lilja being interviewed for their next podcast. We talked about a variety of subjects and I believe the material will be used for two podcasts. This is the … Continue reading