Nancy A. Collins

Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959) is an American horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue.[2] Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.[1]

Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins
Born (1959-09-10) September 10, 1959
McGehee, Arkansas, United States
Pen nameNanzi Regalia[1]
OccupationNovelist
Short story writer
GenreHorror fiction
Fantasy
Science fiction

Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she moved about the South for several years, living in coastal North Carolina and Virginia, before settling in Macon, Georgia in 2019.

Writing

Collins has written numerous novels since 1989, most of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their prey. She is best known for Sonja Blue, a young woman with demonic powers who after being taught by an older male mentor, hunts and kills vampires. Her first appearance was in 1989.[3] A. Asbjørn Jøn notes possible intertextual links between the Whistler character in the 1998 movie Blade and a character named Whistler in the Sonja Blue novel, A Dozen Black Roses (1996), as they possess "striking similarities in role, dramatic focus, visual appearance, and sharing the name".[4] Margaret L. Carter, in her article on 20th Century vampire fiction, listed Sunglasses After Dark as one of the 13 most influential vampire novels published after 1970, particularly in the way Collins depicted vampires as parasitic beings with no identity of their own who 'borrow' the memories of their hosts.[5]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Sunglasses After Dark (1989); White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated, 2000, ISBN 978-1-56504-849-2
  • Tempter Penguin Group, 1990, ISBN 9780451402158; Gauntlet Publications, 2001, ISBN 9781887368513
  • In The Blood (1992); White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58846-876-5
  • Wild Blood (1993); White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated, 2006, ISBN 978-1-58846-878-9
  • Walking Wolf: A Weird Western (1994)
  • Paint It Black (1995)
  • A Dozen Black Roses White Wolf Pub., 1996, ISBN 978-1-56504-872-0
  • Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis (1996)
  • Angels On Fire (1998); White Wolf Publishing, Incorporated, 1998, ISBN 978-1-56504-909-3
  • Lynch: A Gothik Western (1999)
  • Darkest Heart White Wolf Pub., 2001, ISBN 9781565048454
  • VAMPS. HarperCollins. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-134917-1. Nancy A. Collins.
  • VAMPS: Night Life. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-134918-8.
  • VAMPS: After Dark. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-134919-5.
  • Right Hand Magic: A Novel of Golgotham. Penguin. 2010. ISBN 978-0-451-46366-1.
  • Left Hand Magic: A Novel of Golgotham. Penguin. 2011. ISBN 978-1-101-55905-5.
  • Magic and Loss: A Novel of Golgotham (2013)
  • Absalom's Wake (2015)
  • Vampirella: Blood Invasion (2019)

Collections
  • Nameless Sins (1992)
  • Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection (1995)
  • Avenue X (2000)
  • Knuckles and Tales (2002)
  • Dead Roses For A Blue Lady (2002)
  • Dead Man's Hand: Five Tales of the Weird West (2004)
  • Swamp Thing by Nancy A. Collins Omnibus (2020)

Chapbooks
  • The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story (1991)
  • Cold Turkey (1992)
  • Voodoo Chile (2002)
  • The Thing From Lover's Lane (2003)

Movie tie-ins

Anthologies edited
  • Forbidden Acts (1995) (with Martin H Greenberg and Edward E Kramer)
  • Dark Love (1995) (with Martin H Greenberg and Edward E Kramer)
  • Gahan Wilson's the Ultimate Haunted House (1996) (with Gahan Wilson)

Non-fiction
  • The Big Book of Losers (1996)

Comic books

Screenplays
  • Dead Town (1999, unproduced)
  • Sonja Blue (written with Eric Wallace) (2006, unproduced)
  • Devil Head (2006, unproduced)

Awards
  • Bram Stoker Award First Novel winner (1990): Sunglasses After Dark
  • Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1997): The Thing From Lover's Lane
  • Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (2003): Knuckles and Tales
  • International Horror Guild Best Collection nominee (2003): Knuckles and Tales

Other

She is the founder of the International Horror Guild.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Nancy A Collins". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  2. Monica I. O'Rourke "Nancy Collins" in: Richard Bleiler, Ed. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. New York: Thomson/Gale, 2003. (p. 221-226). ISBN 9780684312507
  3. http://wikibin.org/articles/sonja-blue.html
  4. Jøn, A. Asbjørn (2003). "Vampire Evolution". mETAphor: 23. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  5. http://www.simegen.com/reviews/vampires/gravedig.htm
  6. "Nancy A. Collins".

Further reading
  • David Mathew, "Collins, Nancy A(verill)", in David Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers (Detroit: St. James Press, 1998) ISBN 1558622063


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