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Nancy Kilpatrick
Born	(1946-05-06)May 6, 1946 Canada
Died	March 31, 2025(2025-03-31) (aged 78)
Occupation	Novelist
Writing career
Genre	Horror

Nancy Kilpatrick (May 6, 1946 – March 31, 2025) was a Canadian author who wrote stories in the genres of dark fantasy, horror, mystery, erotic horror, and gothic subculture.

Kilpatrick is most known for her vampire-themed works.^[1]

Background

Kilpatrick lived and worked in Montreal.^[2] She also taught Short Story Writing at George Brown College.^[3] Kilpatrick died on March 31, 2025, at the age of 78.^[4] She was cremated; the whereabouts of her ashes are unknown.

Awards

Kilpatrick was a recipient of the Arthur Ellis Award.^[5] Fangoria called her "Canada's answer to Anne Rice".^[1]

Works

Fiction

Dracul: An Eternal Love Story (1998)
Eternal City (2003) with Michael Kilpatrick

The Darker Passions (under the pseudonym Amarantha Knight)

Dracula (1993)
Frankenstein (1995)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1995)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1995)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1996)
Carmilla (1997)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1998)

World of Darkness

As One Dead (1996) with Don Bassingthwaite

Power of the Blood World

Child of the Night (1996)
Near Death (1994)
Reborn (1998)
Bloodlover (2000)

Friday the 13th: Jason X

Planet of the Beast (2005)
To the Third Power (2006)

Thrones of Blood

Revenge of the Vampir King (2017)
Sacrifice of the Hybrid Princess (2017)
Abduction of Two Rulers (2018)
Savagery of the Rebel King (2019)
Anguish of the Sapiens Queen (2020)

Collections

Sex & the Single Vampire (1994)
Endorphins (1997)
The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick (2000)
Cold Comfort (2001)
Contos / Vampiros (Portuguese, 2011)
Vampyric Variations (2012)
Thirteen Plus-1 Lovecraftian Narratives (2023)

Anthologies under the pseudonym Amarantha Knight

Flesh Fantastic (1995)
Love Bites (1995)
Sex Macabre (1996)
Seductive Spectres (1996)
Demon Sex (1998)

Other Anthologies

In the Shadow of the Gargoyle (1998) with Thomas S. Roche
Graven Images: Fifteen Tales of Magic and Myth (2000) with Thomas S. Roche
2001 World Fantasy Convention: "Je me souviens ..." (2001) with Matthew Frederick, Margaret Grady, and Hugues Leblanc
Outsiders: 22 All New Stories From the Edge (2005) with Nancy Holder
Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales of the Great White North (2009) with David Morrell
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead (2010)
Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead (2011)
Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012)
Expiration Date (2015)
nEvermore! (2015) with Caro Soles

Nonfiction

The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined (2004)

References

1 2 Alexander, Chris. "Toronto! Gothic horror author Nancy Kilpatrick launches "Vampyric Variations"". Fangoria. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
↑ Worth, Liz. "Nancy Kilpatrick, Canada's Literary Queen of the Undead". Horror Bound Magazine. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
↑ MacLeod, Selene (19 February 2021). "Quick Six Questions With Nancy Kilpatrick". Horror Tree. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
↑ "Obituary – Nancy Kilpatrick". World Fantasy Convention 2025. Retrieved 21 April 2025.
↑ "Eternal City". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 March 2013.

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