Tim Bradstreet, ''A Dozen Black Roses'' by Nancy A. Collins, 1996 In the 90s, Nancy A. Collins created the character of Sonja Blue, a vampire who hunts vampires, struggling to maintain control of herself from "The Other", an entity that might be a demon or might just be the personification of Blue's own psychopathia (born from the trauma of how she was turned which was not gentle to put it politely). I remember there being no romanticization of vampirism in Collins world which is hard and cruel and unapologetically bloody. There's no listless ennui. Vampires are monsters who kill. Sonja just targets predators and people she can rationalize as "deserving to die." It was fun reading at the time and the wedding of vampires with the punk aesthetic worked for me. If that sounds interesting, then I suggest giving 'Midnight Blue: the Sonja Blue Collection' a read.















