Nancy Kilpatrick

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.

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

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]

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)