Nancy A. Collins

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Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959 in McGehee, Arkansas ) is a writer . She is best known for her series of vampire novels with Sonja Blue. Collins wrote several novels. Some are about a race called the Pretender : monsters from myths and legends who pretend to be humans in order to get their prey more easily.

Nancy A. Collins is one of the authors who are assigned to splatter punk, a style whose direct spelling is influenced by the splatter film. She also wrote for comic series, e.g. B. Swamp Thing and wrote his own comic: Dhampire.

For her first novel Sunglasses After Dark (German: The Kiss of Death of Sonja Blue ) she received the Bram Stoker Award in 1989 .

bibliography

Novels

  • 1990 Tempter
German: The heat of the blood. Goldmann Verlag , 1993 ISBN 3-442-08109-2
  • 1993 Wild Blood
German: wild blood. Goldmann Verlag , 1994 ISBN 3-442-08117-3
  • 1995 Walking Wolf: A Weird Western
  • 1995 Fantastic Four: To Free Atlantis
  • 1996 A Dozen Black Roses
German: Sonja Blue: Racheengel. Feder & Schwert , 1997 ISBN 3-931612-51-1
  • 1998 Angels On Fire
  • 2006 Final Destination II: The Movie with Natasha Rhodes
  • 2008 Looks Could Kill

Sonja Blue series

  • 1989 Sunglasses After Dark
German: Sonja Blue's kiss of death. Festa Verlag , 2006 ISBN 978-3935822985
  • 1992 In The Blood
German: A dozen black roses. Goldmann Verlag , 1993 ISBN 3-442-08112-2
  • 1995 Paint It Black
German: All in black. Goldmann Verlag , 1995 ISBN 3-442-43064-X
  • 2000 Darkest Heart
  • 2002 Dead Roses for a Blue Lady. (Short story collection)

Vamps series

  • 2008 vamps
  • 2009 Night Life
  • 2009 After Dark

Golgotham series

  • 2010 Right Hand Magic
  • 2011 Left Hand Magic

Short story collections

  • 1994 Nameless Sins
  • 2000 Avenue X
  • 2001 Knuckles and Tales
  • 2002 Dead Roses For A Blue Lady
  • 2004 Dead Man's Hand: Five Tales of the Weird West

Anthologies (as editor)

  • 1995 Forbidden Acts , (with Martin H Greenberg and Edward E Kramer)
  • 1995 Dark Love , (with Martin H Greenberg and Edward E Kramer)
  • 1996 Gahan Wilson's the Ultimate Haunted House , (with Gahan Wilson)

Non-fiction

  • 1996 The Big Book of Losers

Short stories

  • The Dreamclown (1983)
  • Demonlover (1990)
  • The Freaktent (1990)
  • Rant (1990)
  • The Two-Headed Man (1990)
  • The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story (1991)
  • Dancing Nitely (1991)
  • Down on Me (1991)
  • Easy's Last Stand (1991)
  • How It Was with the Kraits (1991)
  • Iphigenia (1991)
  • Raymond (1991)
  • The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride: The True Story (1991)
  • Cold Turkey (1992)
  • Fat Tuesday (1992)
  • Necrophile (1992)
  • Aphra (1993)
  • Charity (1993)
  • Freak Babies (1993)
  • The Killer (1993)
  • Seven Devils (1993)
  • Such a Good Baby (1993)
  • The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw (1993)
  • Binky Malomar and His Amazing Instant Pussy Kit (1994)
  • Cancer Alley (1994)
  • The Love of Monsters (1994)
  • The Sacred Treasures of Graceland: Excerpts from the Sanctioned Museum Catalog (1994)
  • Speed ​​Freaks With Guns: The Novelization (1994)
  • Without Sin (1994)
  • Avenue X (1995)
  • Billy Fearless (1995)
  • Down in the Hole (1995)
  • Furies in Black Leather (1995)
  • The Land of the Reflected Ones (1995)
  • The Sign of the Asp (1995)
  • Thin Walls (1995)
  • The Mender of Broken Dreams (1996)
  • Sign of the Silver Hand (1996)
  • The Thing from Lover's Lane (1996) Bram Stoker (nominee)
  • Variations on a Theme (1998)
  • Catfish Gal Blues (1999)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner and nominee of the Bram Stoker Award
personal data
SURNAME Collins, Nancy A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH McGehee, Arkansas