NANCY KILPATRICK was born and grew up in Philadelphia. Before emigrating to Canada in 1970, she lived for a year in San Francisco and another year-and-a-half in Chicago. She is a full-time writer of dark fiction in both short and long forms, and non-fiction articles for magazines and newspapers. Married and divorced twice, she currently lives in Montréal, Québec, with her long-term companion, photographer Hugues Leblanc, and a black cat named Bella.
Known as Canada's "Queen of Vampire Fiction", the undead comprise a large amount of her repertoire, but are certainly not all she writes about. Zombies, ghosts and serial killers have also figured prominently in her work.
She fondly recalls watching Bela Lugosi as Dracula, and Gloria Holden as his vampiric daughter, on the LATE LATE SHOW, hosted by Philadelphia cool-ghoul John Zacherle. She adores the supernatural, but is also not opposed to "reality horror", and loves writing and editing equally. With Hugues, she travels the world in search of cemeteries, ossuaries, mummies and danse macabre artwork.
She has collaborated with a number of writers and editors, including Don Bassingthwaite, Thomas Roche and Nancy Holder.
In her role as a teacher of creative writing, Nancy Kilpatrick will be holding a series of workshops at World Horror Convention 2007 featuring a number of professional guests. There will only be a limited number of places available at these classes for a small extra fee, and more information will be announced in due course.
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Roc
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St. Martin's Press
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Five Star
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PUBLISHED WORKS
Nancy Kilpatrick's generational "The Power of the Blood" vampire series includes the novels CHILD OF THE NIGHT, NEAR DEATH, REBORN, BLOODLOVER and TRANSFORMATION. AS ONE DEAD was a collaboration with Don Bassingthwaite for White Wolf's VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE series, while DRACUL: A LOVE STORY was a novelisation of a stage play of the same name.
Her other novels include JASON X: PLANET OF THE BEAST and JASON X: TO THE THIRD POWER. She compiled the non-fiction study THE GOTH BIBLE: A COMPENDIUM FOR THE DARKLY INCLINED for St. Martin's Press, and co-edited the anthologies OUTSIDERS: 22 ALL-NEW STORIES FROM THE EDGE (with Nancy Holder) and GRAVEN IMAGES and IN THE SHADOW OF THE GARGOYLE (both with Thomas Roche). Her short fiction is collected in SEX AND THE SINGLE VAMPIRE, ENDORPHINS, THE VAMPIRE STORIES OF NANCY KILPATRICK and COLD COMFORT.
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Baskerville
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Black Flame
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Black Flame
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Under the pseudonym "Amarantha Knight" she has written a number of erotic novels in THE DARKER PASSIONS series, including DRACULA, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, FRANKENSTEIN, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, CARMILLA and CURSE OF THE MUMMY, as well as editing the anthologies LOVE BITES, FLESH FANTASTIC, SEX MACABRE, SEDUCTIVE SPECTRES and DEMON SEX. Originally published by Masquerade Books, they are currently being reprinted by Circlet Press.
AWARDS
Nancy Kilpatrick has won Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for short mystery fiction.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Nancy Kilpatrick has just delivered her latest novel, HUNTED, to Orion Books' imprint Neon, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Her
story 'Going Down' recently appeared in editor John Skipp's anthology MONDO ZOMBIE from Cemetery Dance Books. She is also working on several commissioned short stories for various projects.
Further information can be found at the official website www.nancykilpatrick.com
