Unfortunately cliche. I really wanted to like this series (I bought all 3 books), but could not even finish the first one. I LOVED Nancy A. Collins when I was a teenager. Her Sunglasses After Dark series is one of my favorite, but with how cliche this series reads, it makes me second guess the Su...
Sunglasses After Dark is a horror novel. So anyone looking for romance and vampire sparklies should skip this book. The vampires are vicious asshats. The heroine is a killer, and there’s lots of violence and gore. There’s not a drop of UST. Okay maybe a little bit. LOL Did I like it? Yes and...
Struggling artist Lucy Blackford though she'd seen and done it all when she walked out onto her room to commit suicide. That's when she found a naked man with slimmer wings -- a real-life angel. But Joth is hardly the stereotypical cherub -- no angel from the mind of Nancy Collins could be. Despi...
Previously available only in an ultra-limited-edition hardcover, Dead Roses for a Blue Lady collects eight tales of Sanja Blue, all by the vampire/vampire-hunter's creator Nancy A. Collins. These tales include the hard-to-find "Vampire King of the Goth Chicks" and "Some Velvet Morning" along with...
I enjoyed this book more than Sunglasses After Dark. I thought it was more tightly-plotted, and it has a happier ending. There's far less of the confusing dream/flashback/trippy stuff from Sunglasses After Dark, which makes more room for plot.In Sunglasses After Dark, we meet Sonja Blue, a vampir...
I read this in one sitting one summer while on vacation with my cousins. It's a fantastic book that covers the story of a very, very old werewolf, who after a long life filled with startling highs and lows, decides to recount his tale to a passing stranger before he finally dies. It's a tale whic...
Above is the original cover of this novel. Yet another vampire book set in New Orleans. By the author of Sunglasses after Dark, but this is not a Sonja Blue novel.At the time I wrote this admittedly inadequate, well, I hesitate to even use the word "review", in 2002, it has been several years si...
A Dozen Black Roses takes place in part of a large U.S. city called Deadtown. The citizens of Deadtown are made up of drug addicts, alcoholics, gang members and vampires. There are two vampires that are fighting for control of Deadtown. One is Lord Esher who was good friends with a certain horror...
While he was aware that he was before the judge on drunk and disorderly with vagrancy thrown in for good measure, since whoever it was who had kicked the shit out of him also lifted his wallet along with what little money he had left, and all his I.D. as well, he couldn’t bring himself to respond...
She needed to find him before he returned to Ruthven’s so she could tell him she had just spotted the New Blood from the park. As she wound through a stand of stalagmites, she heard Jules’s voice coming from up ahead. Rounding a cone-shaped rock, she spotted him standing next to one of the great ...
Collins has authored over 20 novels and novellas, numerous short stories, and worked on several comic books, including a two-year run on Swamp Thing. She is a recipient of the HWA’s Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Society Award, and has been nominated for the Eisner, John Campbell Memorial, ...
Late afternoon shadows filled the church. As he got to his feet, he grimaced and gingerly touched his skull. His fingers came away sticky with blood. He lurched out into the dying light of the setting sun. There was no sign of either his horse or Farley. “Goddamn lyin’ horse thief,” he muttered u...
I wandered the high plains for several days in a feverish delirium, and at times I thought Medicine Dog rode beside me, his blind eyes undaunted by the snow. Other times I fancied I saw Sundown standing on the horizon, waving me on, Whatisit’s moronic laughter echoing from the darkness. On the th...
It's one in a chain of extended-stay housing complexes that caters to Fortune 500 executives. Before I cross the threshold, I scan the corners for video cameras, spotting a small box just inside the front door aimed at the elevator bank. I step back and close my eyes, sending out a low-level tele...
No one saw who did it. Or at least no one was willing to admit to seeing. As for the video posted on YouTube, it was promptly yanked once the site realized its content, but not before the link spread throughout the Internet like ink in a glass of water. Judging from the appalling comments left on...
Her voice echoed in his head for several days as he tried to focus his attention on an advert for a beer company. He was supposed to be drawing a kangaroo with a six pack of beer in its pouch in place of a joey. After he'd finished drawing the kangaroo, the clients told him they wanted the kangar...