By Her Hand, She Draws You Down (Movie Companion)

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

Now a multi-award winning independent film.

Here is the official companion book for the award-winning indie supernatural film "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down," directed by Anthony G. Sumner, based on the acclaimed story of the same name by award-winning Canadian writer Douglas Smith.

Described as "delightfully creepy" by Booklist, "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" tells the story of a beautiful young artist with an insatiable and deadly hunger. The movie toured indie film festivals in 2010 winning multiple awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Score, Editing, and Photography. The movie will be included on the upcoming horror anthology DVD, Gallery of Fear.

REVIEWS

"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

"A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." --Charles de Lint, award-winning author

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

"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." --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

Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author of speculative fiction, with over a hundred short story publications in thirty countries and twenty-five languages.

His collections include Chimerascope (2010) and Impossibilia (2008), as well as the translated fantasy collection, La Danse des Esprits (France, 2011). His first novel, The Wolf at the End of the World, will be released in 2013.

Doug has twice won Canada's Aurora Award, and has been a finalist for the international John W. Campbell Award, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane.

A multi-award winning film based on Doug's story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" will be released on DVD this year, and other films based on his stories are in the works. Doug's website is smithwriter.com  and he tweets at twitter.com/smithwritr.