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Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins
Born	(1959-09-10)September 10, 1959 (age 66) McGehee, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist short story writer
Genre	Horror fiction Fantasy Science fiction

Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959) is an Americanhorror fiction writer best known for her series ofvampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue.^[1] Collins has also written for comic books, including theSwamp Thing (vol. 2) series,Jason vs. Leatherface,Predator: Hell Come A' Walkin' and her own one-shot issueDhampire: Stillborn.^[2]

Collins was born inMcGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived inNew Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City andAtlanta, Georgia she moved about the South for several years, living in coastal North Carolina and Virginia, before settling in Macon, Georgia in 2019.

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.^{[citation needed]} A. Asbjørn Jøn notes possible intertextual links between the Whistler character in the 1998 movieBlade 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".^[3] Margaret L. Carter, in her article on 20th century vampire fiction, listedSunglasses 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.^[4]

• The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story (1991)
• Cold Turkey (1992)
• Voodoo Chile (2002)
• The Thing From Lover's Lane (2003)

• 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)^[5]
• REH Changed My Life - "REH: Opener of the Way" (2021)^[6]

• 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)

She is the founder of the International Horror Guild.^[10]

• List of horror fiction authors

• David Mathew, "Collins, Nancy A(verill)", inDavid Pringle, ed.,St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers (Detroit: St. James Press, 1998)ISBN 1558622063

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• Nancy A. Collins at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Collins' "True Blue - The Official Sonja Blue Blog"
• Myspace Golgotham
• Nancy A. Collins on GoodReads

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