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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Domesticated
I have today off from the day job. In addition to my usual writing duties, I’m doing some domestic chores: I prepared a batch of dough for the breadmaker and I’m making chicken soup from the carcass (love that word–it’s … Continue reading
Playing Tag — part 2
Part 2 of my interview with Mick Garris about Bag of Bones just went up at FEARNet. Check it out, along with another batch of never-before-seen photos from the miniseries and production.
Prepare to be boarded
My favorite character from Bloom County was Oliver Wendell Jones. He was the computer hacker who was always taking over corporate websites. He often dressed up like a pirate when he embarked on one of his missions. The predecessor to … Continue reading
Maybe I’ll drop in on the Ewings
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, they say. I don’t know why I repeat that old adage. It has nothing to do with today’s post. Not much, anyway. I realized this week that I seem to have … Continue reading
Give a hoot
The youngsters started arriving at around 6:45 last night and were all done by 8:00. We had maybe forty visitors or so in total, mostly in groups of four or five at a time. A fairly typical Halloween. Got rid … Continue reading
The Spirit of (see picture)
One of the last things I did before shutting down my computer before we headed to the airport to go to Paris a couple of weeks ago was submit a short story to the anthology The Spirit of Poe, which … Continue reading
Stained glass
Vignettes from Paris #4 While in Paris last week and the week before we walked. A lot. Occasionally we took the Metro. We never took a single taxi the whole time. We used the Air France airbus to get into … Continue reading
Paris: City of Lighters
Vignettes from Paris #3 We had a great time on our recent 10-day trip to Paris, make no mistake about it. It was relaxing, adventurous, rejuvenating, invigorating, educational and fun. We did have a couple of quibbles, though. The first … Continue reading
Security issues
Vignette from Paris #2 One of the best things we did shortly after arriving in Paris was to buy a Paris Museum Pass. These cards are good for admission for about 60 venues in and around the city (including Versailles), … Continue reading
One ring to rule them
Vignette from Paris #1 On Wednesday afternoon, as we were approaching the Musee D’Orsay on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, an older woman came into view. Suddenly she bent down and picked something up off the sidewalk … Continue reading