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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#51: Sometimes You’re Wrong
Interesting season finale to NCIS last night, with Papa Walton, I mean Papa Gibbs at risk. I think I see how it will conclude. After all, if there’s an armed guard in Abby’s lab then Gibbs probably has someone (possibly … Continue reading
All dogs don’t necessarily go to heaven
This is going to be a very long post, and it consists of a combination of ramblings, musings and observations, but it’s all about Lost, so it’s all behind the cut. First off, I thought it was an excellent idea … Continue reading
*This* is the 77
Shows are wrapping up left and right for the season. For some reason I thought last night was going to be the (series) finale of FlashForward, too, but I guess there’s one more episode left. I can’t say I was … Continue reading
We’re very close to the end, Hugo
When I saw this scene at the end of this week’s NCIS, I was immediately reminded of Taylor (Charlton Heston) riding up the beach near the end of Planet of the Apes. The only thing missing was the Statue of … Continue reading
Checkmate
Finished reading Corduroy Mansions to my wife last night. A book Douglas Adams might have described as “mostly harmless.” Light, frothy entertainment. We’re going to switch gears and read Avoid Boring People by James Watson (of Watson and Crick, discoverers … Continue reading
Tawdry Quirkshop
My Storytellers Unplugged essay this month is about translators: Lost in Translation. A lot of the essay consists of an interview I conducted with Tullio Dobner, who has been translating Stephen King’s novels for many years and also translated The Stephen … Continue reading
Law and Disorder
NBC doesn’t impinge on my eyeballs very often. In fact, I think I’m telling the truth when I say that the only NBC shows I watch are Law & Order (the mothership) and Law & Order: SVU. Well, it looks … Continue reading
Timber!
In the fall of 1967, the building that was at the time called the Civic Center in Pittsburgh hosted its first hockey game. The combatants that night were the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Montreal Canadiens. Over four decades later, on … Continue reading
Mom loved you best
I received an interesting proposal via e-mail yesterday, a chance to be in front of a TV camera for the first time. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s the first time. First time the camera will be aimed deliberately at … Continue reading
Think of the children
I started Broken by Karin Slaughter this weekend. I read the first two or three of her Grant County books, but I’ve missed some, so I have to catch up with past events. Fortunately, Slaughter does a very good job … Continue reading