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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Burt Notice
Our erstwhile tropical depression now has a name: Bonnie. We almost had a Bonnie a few weeks ago, but that storm couldn’t get its act together. For some reason I keep hearing “My Bonnie lies over the ocean” in my … Continue reading
Coming up with feathers
I overheard someone complaining about going out on an unsuccessful errand run. “Came up with only feathers, no chickens” is the quaint phrase they used to describe the frustrating experience. I thought: I need to write that down. Could come … Continue reading
Viral marketing
I received a very strange package from Fed-Ex yesterday. Overnight delivery, rush, rush, rush. Before I opened the box, I noted that it came from Maryland, so I thought perhaps it was something from Cemetery Dance. When I opened the … Continue reading
Mind the Gap
My Storytellers Unplugged essay, Gap Year(s), went live on Saturday. It’s about my “lost decade” from writing. Check it out! My mini-seminar for the Houston Writers Guild went quite well on Saturday. I got to Sugar Land in about an … Continue reading
Death by PowerPoint
Tomorrow morning, I’m packing up my laptop, a powerpoint with enough slides to choke a camel, and a box of books to be used as props. Heading south across Houston to Sugar Land, which always makes me think of Candyland … Continue reading
All Our Yesterdays
Two new Alan Parsons songs available on iTunes this week. One is a single, All Our Yesterdays, and the other is the B-side instrumental, Alpha Centauri. YouTube videos available via the hyperlinks. The one for All Our Yesterdays is interesting because it … Continue reading
Shock Treatment
Crowded House fans, take note. Their new album, Intriguer, is available in the U.S. today. I downloaded the audio tracks from iTunes this morning and then left my computer running to download the associated videos. I’ve only listened to part … Continue reading
The octopus retires
One goal every 120 minutes. Be still my heart. I watched most of the World Cup final yesterday afternoon. I don’t think my pulse rate got up over 60. It was a relaxing way to spend a few hours while … Continue reading
Safari
I was disappointed to discover that Burn Notice was a rerun last night. I was looking forward to the torture interrogation episode. Not until next week, I guess. I watched the first episode of Big Brother. I have two guesses … Continue reading
Not-quite Bonnie
Apparently all the rain we’ve been getting lately (2.3″ at the airport yesterday, a record for that day) is because of a tropical depression that still could become Tropical Storm Bonnie if it manages to muster up a little more strength. … Continue reading