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.
"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
About the Author
Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."
His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The Lost Expedition). His other books include the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World; the collections Borderlanz, Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits (translated); and the writer's guide Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction.
Published in 28 languages, Doug is a 4-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, most recently for The Hollow Boys, as well as the juried IAP Award for the same book. He's also been a finalist for the Astounding Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, the juried Alberta Magazine Award for Fiction, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.
His short fiction has appeared in the top markets in the field, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, InterZone, Weird Tales, Baen's Universe, Escape Pod, On Spec, Cicada, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and The Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction (vol.2).
Doug lives near Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"The man is Sturgeon good. Zelazny good. I don't give those up easy." —Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner
"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner
"His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner
"Stories you can't forget, even years later." —Julie Czerneda, multi-award-winning author and editor
