Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick writes and edits in the horror, dark fantasy, mystery and erotica genres, and vampires are her specialty. She has published 18 novels, including the popular 4-book Power of the Blood vampire series. A unique reprinting (in slipcase) of her seven-novel erotic horror series The Darker Passions (writing as Amarantha Knight) is available from MHB Press. Some of her roughly 200 published short stories have worked their way into 5 short story collections. You can read a few of her recent pieces in: Blood Lite; Blood Lite 2–Overbite (both Pocket Books); Hellbound Hearts (Pocket Books); The Bleeding Edge (Dark Discoveries); The Living Dead and By Blood We Live (both Nightshade Books); Don Juan and Men (MLR Press); Vampires: Dracula and the Undead Legions (Moonstone Books); The Bitten Word (Newcon Press); Campus Chills (Stark Publishing); Darkness on the Edge (PS Publishing); Vampires: the Recent Undead (Prime Books); Best New Vampire Tales #1 and Best New Zombie Tales #3 (both from Books of the Dead Press). Upcoming stories will appear in The Moonstone Book of Zombies and The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women. She has also written 1 non-fiction book (The goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined (St. Martin’s Press), and has edited 10 anthologies, the latest being a horror/dark fantasy anthology Tesseracts Thirteen (co-edited with David Morrell – 2009); Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (www.vampires-evolve.com – 2010); Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (August 2011); Danse Macabre (2012) – (all for Edge SF&F Publishing). She scripted 3 of her short stories in Vamperotica #5, 6 and 13 and these comics and stories combine with interviews to create the graphic novel Nancy Kilpatrick’s Vampyre Theater.
