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Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface , Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn . 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 settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.
Collins has written fourteen 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 her visceral, almost splatterpunk style of writing, which holds back very little from the reader, and is best personified by her signature character, Sonja Blue.
Novels
Sunglasses After Dark (1989)
Tempter (1990)
In The Blood (1992)
Wild Blood (1993)
Walking Wolf: A Weird Western (1994)
Paint It Black (1995)
A Dozen Black Roses (1996)
Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis (1996)
Angels On Fire (1998)
Lynch: A Gothik Western (1999)
Darkest Heart (2002)
VAMPS: (2009)
VAMPS: Night Life (2009)
VAMPS: After Dark (2009)
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)
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
Looks Could Kill (2005) ISBN 1-84416-316-4)
The Movie (2006) ISBN 1-84416-318-0)
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)
Selected short stories and novelettes
The Dreamclown (1983)
Demonlover (1990)
The Freaktent (1990)
Rant (1990)
The Two-Headed Man (1990)
Dancing Nitely (1991)
Down on Me (1991)
Easy's Last Stand (1991)
How It Was with the Kraits (1991)
Iphigenia (1991)
Raymond (1991)
The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story (1991)
Fat Tuesday (1992)
Necrophile (1992)
Aphra (1993)
Charity (1993)
Freak Babies (1993)
The Killer (1993)
Seven Devils (1993)
Such a Good Baby (1993)
The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw (1993)
Binky Malomar and His Amazing Instant Pussy Kit (1994)
Cancer Alley (1994)
The Love of Monsters (1994)
The Sacred Treasures of Graceland: Excerpts from the Sanctioned Museum Catalogue' (1994)
Speed Freaks With Guns: The Novelization (1994)
Without Sin (1994)
Avenue X (1995)
Billy Fearless (1995)
Down in the Hole (1995)
Furies in Black Leather (1995)
The Land of the Reflected Ones (1995)
The Sign of the Asp (1995)
Thin Walls (1995)
The Mender of Broken Dreams (1996)
Sign of the Silver Hand (1996)
The Thing from Lover's Lane (1996) Bram Stoker (nominee)
Variations on a Theme (1998)
Catfish Gal Blues (1999)
Calaverada (2000)
The Pumpkin Child (2001)
The Eighth Devil (2001)
Junior Teeter And The Bad Shine (2001)
The Ice Wedding (2009, forthcoming)
Return to Hell House (2009, forthcoming)
Swamp Thing (DC/Vertigo, 1991—1993)
Jason vs. Leatherface (Topps Comics, 1995)
Sunglasses After Dark (Verotik Publications, 1995—1997)
Machina Jones (Marvel Comics, 1995)
Stillborn (Vertigo, 1996)
Predator: Hell Come A'Walkin (Dark Horse, 1996)
Dead Town (1999, unproduced)
Sonja Blue written w/Eric Wallace (2006,unproduced)
Devil Head (2006, unproduced)
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
Founder International Horror Guild
Total Books: 69