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    By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
    By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
    By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
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    By Her Hand, She Draws You Down

    By Douglas Smith

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    Aurora Award Finalist | Best New Horror Selection

    *** Now an award-winning independent film ***

     

    Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath still, but as Cath's hunger grows, so does Joe's fear--fear that one day she may draw him down.

     

    Horror, supernatural, vampire (short story)

     

    "The best of the bunch…a haunting variant on the vampire legend with an understated and brutal ending." —Publishers Weekly

     

    "Highlights among the stories include Douglas Smith's delightfully creepy 'By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,' about a young woman who is driven by a mysterious hunger to sketch people and steal their life force as her horrified lover looks on." —Booklist

     

    "I was reminded of the tone of some of Harlan Ellison's best work…where many of the protagonists seemed to be the unwitting victims of dark, irrational forces." —The Fix

     

    "...a title that rules. ...psychic vampirism, creepy street performers, the horrors of small coastal towns. And Smith took the story somewhere that surprised me. The twist is sustained." —Jay Lake, Tangent Online

     

    "...examines vampirism from an unusual and genuinely horrifying angle." —SF Site Review

     

    "Well done and with a nice twist…" —Fantasy Book Critic

     

    "Haunting passages and scenes..." —Strange Horizons

     

    "...a chilling, weird tale of an artist with a great hunger." —The Haunted Weblog

     

    "Familiar subjects...dealt with in an original form and with a final turn that will surprise you." — Bibliopolis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Smith
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9780991800780
    By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator and the author of Rasputin and Former People, which was a bestseller in the U.K. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic, and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives with his family in Seattle.

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      By Her Hand, She Draws You Down - Douglas Smith

      By Her Hand, She Draws You Down

      by Douglas Smith

      Aurora Award Finalist

      Best New Horror Selection

      Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath still, but as Cath’s hunger grows, so does Joe’s fear—fear that one day she may draw him down.

      ~~

      The best of the bunch…a haunting variant on the vampire legend with an understated and brutal ending.

      —Publishers Weekly

      Highlights among the stories include Douglas Smith’s delightfully creepy ‘By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,’ about a young woman who is driven by a mysterious hunger to sketch people and steal their life force as her horrified lover looks on.

      —Booklist

      I was reminded of the tone of some of Harlan Ellison’s best work…where many of the protagonists seemed to be the unwitting victims of dark, irrational forces.

      —The Fix

      ...a title that rules. ...psychic vampirism, creepy street performers, the horrors of small coastal towns. And Smith took the story somewhere that surprised me. The twist is sustained.

      —Jay Lake, Tangent Online

      A wonderful, creepy and suspenseful tale of a boardwalk portrait artist who struggles with a powerful dark hunger, and the man who, through loving her, must come to grips with his own inner demons.

      —Rainbow Dragon Recommends

      ...examines vampirism from an unusual and genuinely horrifying angle.

      —SF Site Review

      Well done and with a nice twist…

      —Fantasy Book Critic

      Haunting passages and scenes...

      —Strange Horizons

      ...a chilling, weird tale of an artist with a great hunger.

      —The Haunted Weblog

      "Familiar subjects...dealt with in

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