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Nancy A. Collins

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Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins
Born (1959-09-10) September 10, 1959 (age 65)
McGehee, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
Genre

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.[1] 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.[2]

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

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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

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Main article: Nancy A. Collins bibliography

Chapbooks

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  • 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

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  • 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)[6]
  • REH Changed My Life - "REH: Opener of the Way" (2021)[7]

Comic books

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  • 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) ISBN 978-1-56389-256-1
  • 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

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Awards for Nancy Collins
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1989 Bram Stoker Award First Novel Sunglasses After Dark Won
1990 Lord Ruthven Award Fiction Sunglasses After Dark Won
1990 British Fantasy Award Sydney J. Bounds Award (Newcomer) Won
1990 Locus Award First Novel Sunglasses After Dark Nominated [8]
1990 Locus Award Horror Sunglasses After Dark Nominated
1990 Astounding Award for Best New Writer Sunglasses After Dark Nominated
1990 Compton Crook Award First Novel Sunglasses After Dark Nominated
1991 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy Tempter Nominated
1992 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy In the Blood Nominated
1992 Eisner Awards Single Issue/One-Shot Swamp Thing #113 Nominated
1995 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy Wild Blood Nominated
1995 Locus Award Collection Nameless Sins Nominated
1996 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy Paint it Black Nominated
1996 Locus Award Anthology Dark Love Nominated
1996 World Fantasy Award Anthology Dark Love Nominated
1996 Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction The Thing from Lover's Lane Nominated
1996 Deathrealm Award Anthology Dark Love Won [9]
1998 Seiun Award Translated Long Work Sunglasses After Dark Nominated
2002 International Horror Guild Award Collection Knuckles and Tales Nominated [10]
2002 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Knuckles and Tales Nominated

Other

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She is the founder of the International Horror Guild.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "Nancy A Collins". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  3. ^ "Sonja Blue". Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  4. ^ Jøn, A. Asbjørn (2003). "Vampire Evolution". METAphor: 23. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  5. ^ "Outstanding Vampire Novels".
  6. ^ From Bayou to Abyss: Examining John Constantine, Hellblazer.
  7. ^ "ROBERT E. HOWARD CHANGED MY LIFE". Rogue Blades. January 11, 2021. Retrieved February 7, 2022.
  8. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
  9. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Deathrealm_Awards_1996
  10. ^ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
  11. ^ "Nancy A. Collins". Penguin Random House Canada.

Further reading

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  • 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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