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.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). Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing (vol. 2) series, Jason vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A' Walkin''' and her own one-shot issue 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 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. 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". 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.

Bibliography

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)

Non-fiction The Big Book of Losers (1996) Drawn Swords' - "Foreword" (2017) From Bayou To Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer - "What Do You Do With An Undead Sailor?" (2020) REH Changed My Life - "REH: Opener of the Way" (2021)

Comic books Swamp Thing (vol. 2) (DC/Vertigo, 1991–1993) Jason vs. Leatherface (Topps Comics, 1995) Sunglasses After Dark (Verotik Publications, 1995–1997) Machina Jones (Marvel Comics, 1995) Dhampire: Stillborn (Vertigo, 1996; DC Comics, 1997) Predator: Hell Come A' Walkin' (Dark Horse, 1996) Vampirella (Dynamite, 2014–2016) Sunglasses After Dark: Full Blooded Edition (IDW, 2015) Army of Darkness: Furious Road (Dynamite Entertainment, 2016) Swamp Thing by Nancy A. Collins Omnibus (DC Comics/DC Black Label, 2020)

Awards + Awards for Nancy Collins Year Award Category Work Result Ref. 1989Bram Stoker AwardFirst NovelSunglasses After Dark 1990Lord Ruthven AwardFictionSunglasses After Dark 1990British Fantasy AwardSydney J. Bounds Award (Newcomer) 1990Locus AwardFirst NovelSunglasses After Dark 1990Locus AwardHorrorSunglasses After Dark 1990Astounding Award for Best New Writer Sunglasses After Dark 1990Compton Crook AwardFirst NovelSunglasses After Dark 1991Locus AwardHorror/Dark FantasyTempter 1992Locus AwardHorror/Dark FantasyIn the Blood 1992Eisner AwardsSingle Issue/One-ShotSwamp Thing #113 1995Locus Award Horror/Dark FantasyWild Blood 1995Locus Award CollectionNameless Sins 1996Locus Award Horror/Dark FantasyPaint it Black 1996Locus AwardAnthologyDark Love 1996World Fantasy AwardAnthologyDark Love 1996Bram Stoker AwardLong FictionThe Thing from Lover's Lane 1996Deathrealm AwardAnthologyDark Love 1998Seiun AwardTranslated Long WorkSunglasses After Dark 2002International Horror Guild AwardCollectionKnuckles and Tales 2002Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionKnuckles and Tales

Other She is the founder of the International Horror Guild.

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