Pen name Nanzi Regalia Name Nancy Collins | Role Fiction writer | |
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Occupation NovelistShort story writer Genre Horror fictionFantasyScience fiction Awards Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award Nominations Locus Award for Best First Novel Books Sunglasses After Dark, A Dozen Black Roses, Midnight blue, Walking Wolf, Darkest heart Similar People Edward E Kramer, Natasha Rhodes, Greg Cox, Christa Faust, Peter David | ||
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.
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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.
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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 Blade (1998) 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".
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Founder International Horror Guild