Alditha Collins

Alditha Collins is Queen of Halloween Town, wife of Kasim Collins, and the mother of Kara Collins. 
She is an aging white vampire bat of sour disposition and is often seen wearing an open robe. She possesses certain formidable powers common to vampire bats, including hypnosis, the ability to trap a victim in an inescapable illusion of what they most desire, and the ability to stop the perception of time so that she can move from place to place without being seen. These powers are all illusionary. She is not supernatural. However she does follow occult teachings that make her believe eating human flesh will grant her eternal youth. Though any evidence she sees of this working is just her using her illusion powers on herself. 
Like most bat people she can walk or fly without consciously thinking about it. Thus she is often seen floating from place to place with Gothic bearing. 
In her quest for more money and power to revitalize Halloween Town , she conspires to sell her daughter into a loveless marriage with Blair Montgomery. This marriage gives Blair complete control of Halloween Town, along with access to The Book of Secrets, an ancient tome full of dark and forbidden magic which Blair seems to regard as important to his secret goals. 
The last name of the Halloween Ruling Family is an Easter Egg reference to the television series Dark Shadows. According to the author, given the huge number of family names used in this series, it was inevitable that the Collins name would come up. The family of vampire bats needed a name and this worked. However, it is just an Easter egg. No actual connection to the Dark Shadows universe is implied. 
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