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
Blog Archives
Book review: Return to Sender by Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson has a home-and-away strategy to writing his novels featuring Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire, which means that alternating books take place in the county seat and some place farther afield. Return to Sender is an away novel, although it’s still … Continue reading
Book Review: Free — My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox has written at length about her experiences as a wrongfully convicted murderer in her previous memoir, a book she freely admits was written to help defray the crushing debt accrued by her family while mounting her defense against … Continue reading
Book review: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
Ten years ago, Jeff VanderMeer released a trilogy known collectively as the Southern Reach or Area X novels. A mysterious, mostly impermeable boundary isolated a stretch of the Gulf Coast, killing almost everyone within its confines. The region was called Area … Continue reading
Book review: Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
Former Inspector John Rebus finds himself in the same place where he put so many other people he investigated: Her (or is it His?) Majesty’s Prison Edinburgh. He’s been found guilty of attempted murder in the death of his longtime … Continue reading
Book Review: Tooth and Claw by Craig Johnson
The weather has not always been kind to Sheriff Walt Longmire. His home turf of Absaroka County, Wyoming has brutal winters, and he’s been stranded in the desert for days on end as well. Walt has also faced some human … Continue reading
Book review: The Folly by Gemma Amor
The inciting incident is reminiscent of the Michael Peterson case popularized on the Netflix series The Staircase. A woman falls to her death in the family home when the only other person present was her husband. Was she pushed or was … Continue reading
Book review: The Waiting by Michael Connelly
For most detectives, losing their gun, badge and ID would be humiliating, but for Renée Ballard, it could be a career-ending incident. She’s had enough run-ins with powerful people in the LAPD for it to be grounds for dismissal. So, … Continue reading
Review: The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers
They don’t call themselves the Bang-Bang Sisters when they’re playing hard-rocking cover songs in bars and clubs across the country. For those gigs, they operate under a variety of names. They transport their gear in a van: Jessie’s lead guitar, … Continue reading
Review: Moonbound by Robin Sloan
Eleven thousand years have passed since humanity was conquered by its own creation, a group of Artificial Intelligence entities known as dragons that were sent into the galaxy to see what they could learn, who returned a year later determined … Continue reading
Review: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
Call it “found footage adjacent.” Thirty years ago, a small group of twenty-somethings banded together to create a movie called Horror Movie. The film was never completed due to an on-set accident, but it became a cult legend after the screenplay … Continue reading