Nancy A. Collins
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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]
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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 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.[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
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
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) 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
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
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| 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
She is the founder of the International Horror Guild.[11]
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