What's In A Name

by Bev Vincent, François Vaillancourt (Artist)

an intriguing essay about the Stephen King titles that might have been. To make this chapbook really special, François Vaillancourt has contributed the cover artwork and a dozen full-color interiors depicting what these Stephen King books might have looked like if King had used their original titles.

Paperback

Published July 1, 2022

About the author

Bev Vincent is the author of The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award. In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright 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 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 work has been translated into: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian.

He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001 and writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews. He has served as a judge for the Al Blanchard, Shirley Jackson and Edgar Awards.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty cool limited edition/hard-to-find "chapbook" that discusses 14 different Stephen King books that had their original titles changed to something else during the writing process.

Also included is full-page book cover artwork (for each book) depicting what these books might have looked like if the original book titles had been used.