By Her Hand, She Draws You Down [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Best New Horror selection.

*** Now an independent film ***

"Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and ...
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Overview

Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Best New Horror selection.

*** Now an independent film ***

"Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think."
—Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids and FlashForward

"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice."
—Charles de Lint

"One of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."
—Library Journal

DESCRIPTION:
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.

REVIEWS:
"A haunting variant on the vampire legend with an understated and brutal ending."
—Publishers Weekly

"Delightfully creepy."
—Booklist

"I was reminded of the tone of some of Harlan Ellison’s best work."
—The Fix

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

"...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

"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:
Doug is an award-winning author of speculative fiction, with over a million words of fiction sold and over a hundred short story sales to professional markets in thirty countries and two dozen languages.

He has published three short story collections: Chimerascope (ChiZine Publications, Canada, 2010), Impossibilia, (PS Publishing, UK, 2008), and just recently, La Danse des Esprits (Dreampress, France, 2011).

Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award for speculative fiction, and have been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's Bookies Award, and the juried Sunburst Award.

Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940011280528
  • Publisher: Douglas Smith, via Smashwords
  • Publication date: 4/2/2011
  • Sold by: SMASHWORDS - EBKS
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 593,277
  • File size: 332 KB

Meet the Author

I'm an award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred story sales in thirty countries and twenty-four languages around the world, including InterZone, Amazing Stories, Cicada, Baen's Universe, Weird Tales, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Postscripts, On Spec, and The Third Alternative, as well as anthologies from Penguin/Roc, DAW, Meisha Merlin, and others.

I have two collections of short fiction. My latest, CHIMERASCOPE (ChiZine Publications, 2010), contains 16 of my favourite stories, including an Aurora winner, a Best New Horror selection, and nine Aurora finalists. My first collection, IMPOSSIBILIA (2008), is available from the award-winning UK press, PS Publishing. These can be ordered from the Store page on my web site, smithwriter.com, where you can also read some free online stories along with a complete list of my published fiction is available here along with reviews of my stories.

I was a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, and have twice won the Aurora Award (2001 and 2004) for best SF&F short fiction by a Canadian. An indie film producer recently completed a short film based on one of my stories. More information is available on my website.

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