Douglas L. Smith was taught at a very early age from his mother that reading was important. He would read anything and everything he could get his hands on. Then he fell in love with sports. In the eighth grand an english teacher once told him, "You are going to make and english teacher love you in college." Having no idea what that meant, his life moved on. He moved through high school playing football and wrestling. After high school he attended community college, where thanks to two english teachers his life changed. Football over after a stint playing very semi-pro football. He began working in education and coaching. Still an avid reader and now movie watcher, something struck him like a lighting bolt. He would read a book or get to the end of a movie and think to himself, "I could have done that better." So he began to write and then overly criticize his own work which he would eventually throw away. One day he let someone read a sample of what he wrote and they liked it. The rest is how you say...History.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Título : By Her Hand, She Draws You Down
EAN : 9780991800780
Editorial : Douglas Smith
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