Introduction
Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue.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.
Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time inNew York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.
Writing
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 vampire character, Sonja Blue. Critics such as A. Asbjørn Jøn have noted 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".
Comic books
- Swamp Thing (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–present)
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.