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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Sparklers
The rains that we expected earlier this week because of Alex are finally arriving. It’s a lot worse on the south side of I-10, I understand, but it’s been a dark and rainy day up on the north side, too. … Continue reading
Never ask a crocodile to the junior prom
We got a little rain, but nowhere near as much as I expected as a side effect of Hurricane Alex, which struck Mexico as a Category 2. I think Houston is getting it worse than we are on the north … Continue reading
In the Kitchen with a Lead Pipe
We still haven’t seen any effects from Hurricane Alex, but the rain is on its way, apparently. Three to five inches in some places. Eighty percent chance of rain today and tomorrow, 50% on Friday and Saturday, with lingering rain … Continue reading
Alex calling
Tropical Storm–and soon-to-be-hurricane–Alex is churning things up down in the gulf. It’s probably going to come ashore near the Texas-Mexico border, but we’re on the wet side of the storm so we’re probably going to see some heavy rains over … Continue reading
Paradox
On Saturday I went to ApolloCon for several hours. Met up with Michael Bracken, Bill Crider, Lee Thomas, Gabrielle Faust and a guy who looked like Brian Keene wearing a kilt. The con is a little different than a horror … Continue reading
More stories
One thing that has intrigued me about this whole McChrystal affair is that I saw a segment on him on Sixty Minutes several months ago and I came away from the piece thinking that he was an interesting guy who … Continue reading
The Mighty Pen
I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 after yesterday’s post. Every now and then I follow the warnings and do a full backup of my site before I push the automatic installation button, but mostly I just push the button and hope … Continue reading
Underhenge
I’m surprised that I haven’t heard many people talking about the new anthology Stories: All-New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. I bought it for my Kindle last week and the stories thus far have been uniformly very … Continue reading
Turtleneck Season
My essay “The Tangled Web We Weave” is now up on Storytellers Unplugged. It’s about the work involved in adding something significant to a novel between drafts. I received my copies of Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, edited by David Morrell and … Continue reading
The Grand Illusion
If you want to check out Sarah Mclachlan’s new album, Laws of Illusion, before buying it, you can listen to the whole thing for free at music.aol.com today. Also Tom Petty’s Mojo, and a number of other albums. I found … Continue reading