Some Velvet Morning

Sonja Blue #Short story

by Nancy A. Collins

Once upon a time there was an Contessa who kept herself eternally beautiful by bathing in the blood of those she butchered. For years and years she traveled around the world, luring innocent and sinner alike to their doom in order to feed her monstrous vanity, with no one to stop her. Then, one day, the Contessa met the dreaded vampire hunter, Sonja Blue, with her mirrored-eyes and dreadful silver switchblade. The Contessa survived her fateful first encounter with Sonja Blue, only to lose her legs in the bargain. No longer able to hunt or kill on her own, she sought out a partner to help her draw her bath of blood. She finally found the perfect companion in Phaedra, a young runaway with a troubled past, who she schooled in the arts of seduction and murder, until she became the world's deadliest female serial killer. Together they have left a trail of death and destruction across the globe, always managing to be just a step or two ahead of the dreaded vampire hunter. But all fairy tales must have their end. And now that Sonja Blue knows where the Contessa is hiding, living happily ever after is not an option. Also contains bonus Part One Absalom's Wake-Gone A' Whaling!

Genres: Vampires, Horror, Fiction

49 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 11, 2012

About the author

Nancy A. Collins (born 10 September 1959) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs. Leatherface, Predator: Hell Come A Walkin and her own one-shot Dhampire: Stillborn.

Collins was born in McGehee, Arkansas, United States. She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.

Collins has written twenty novels since 1989, many of which refer to and directly include races of creatures the author calls Pretenders, monsters from myth and legend passing as human to better hunt their prey.

Collins has also written a number of highly acclaimed Southern Gothic short stories and novellas, most of which are set in Seven Devils, Arkansas, a highly fictionalized version of her hometown.

Most recently, she has focused her attention onto the Golgotham urban fantasy series,published by Penguin. Golgotham is the 'supernatural' ghetto of New York City, where creatures from myth and folklore--including witches,shapeshifters,leprechauns and centaurs--live and work in uneasy alliance with mankind.

Reviews

[C.T. Phipps · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sonja Blue is hunting down Countless Elizabeth Bathory in Hollywood. This is mostly just a fictionalized version of her backstory and Sonja serving as the inevitable Jason Voorhees esque killer that the Countess can't defeat. She's already crippled at the start of the story and must rely on her Renfield in order to lure men to their deaths (virginal young girls are no longer required). I really enjoyed it.

[Keith Sprague]

Love Blue Sonja

Rereading the Blue Sonja series. Loved it then, love it now.
Well written, and can be read separately or as a series.