NICOLE EIGENER
Author of queer, gothic vampire romance
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I write dark, Gothic fiction focusing on queer experiences with a heavy injection of French and American history. Vampires…and how they are a metaphor for queerness — and otherness — are my raison d’etre.
Beguiled by Night and Citizens of Shadow: From the ancient folds of 17th-century Paris to the seedy underbelly of modern-day Los Angeles, a vampire finds his time unwinding like a spool of dirty thread. Thrust into a time-traveling journey of self-discovery, he must confront his past and make a life-altering choice.
A haunting and thought-provoking read that will captivate lovers of dark, atmospheric horror and historical fiction: particularly those who appreciate complex, introspective narratives that explore the depths of the human (and supernatural) condition.
MEMBER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
At Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris (2025)
Beguiled by Night: A Vampire Tale is my debut novel (2020), followed by a collaboration with Beverley Lee, Crimson is the Night (2022/2023). Beguiled became a duology with the publication of its sequel, Citizens of Shadow (2023). Then came yet another, much more epic, collaboration with Beverley — A Conclave of Crimson: A Queer Vampire Romance trilogy. The final volume (or is it?) of Conclave lands on 7 March, 2025. The future is wide open, but Beverley and I are mere scribes — we write when the characters are ready to tell us their stories.
And there might just be another volume about Vauquelin… he isn’t done with me — yet.
ABOUT ME
From as far back as I can remember I’ve been captivated by the written word. I devoured stories, explored new worlds under the guidance of such authors as Madelein L’Engle, Virginia Woolf, and E.M. Forster. So it was no surprise when my own characters began whispering to me. Beguiled by Night, my debut novel, was born in 2020, a story about a queer French vampire (channelling my love of the gothic and French history) whose timeline was not in the least linear.
Note to anyone contemplating this foolhardiness: it will break your brain. I am still recovering!
And it turned out that my vampire, Vauquelin, had not finished talking to me (he still hasn’t, possibly because he’s French) 2023 saw the sequel to Beguiled by Night, Citizens of Shadow, released into the wild. Stories have a habit of settling under your skin and they do not take no for an answer so, as part of the duo Nicoverley, with Beverley Lee (author of the Gabriel Davenport series and multiple other books) I added co-authoring to my writer’s accomplishments with the publication of the multiverse standalone trilogy, A Conclave of Crimson: A Queer Vampire Romance.
At one point during this collaboration Beverley and I almost broke the internet, or at least Google’s character limit for a document. Seven vampires are very wordy creatures.
I’m a queer indie author—representation matters, in life and in stories. My characters are queer, multi-faceted, flawed, and with very real human emotions, because it makes sense that any mortal traits would be carried over into immortality.
When I’m not writing you can find me with a glass of red wine in my hand, dreaming of forgotten graveyards, stormy nights, and male vampires kissing.
