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“The story has so many layers that I’m still sorting them out. And like an onion, I’m not sure if I’ll ever find the final layer.” –Tangent Online

“A visceral work a true pearl of the fantastic literature. Breath-taking.” –Café de Ontem

“…remind me of the reasons I love the author’s writing: his characterisation, attention to detail and recurring themes of love, faith and redemption.” –SF Crowsnest Reviews

“Smith describes a disturbingly plausible military application for the narcotic … The basic concept behind the drug strikes me as one of those rare ideas that seems at once so perfect and so natural that someone must have come up with it before; but if someone has, I haven’t heard about it, and regardless Smith [...]

“…the book’s most skillfully crafted story…a multi-layered tale about a circus that features a pair of ‘angels’ who have the ability to produce a drug that produces pleasure based on intensity of emotion. Factor in that the owner of the circus is in love with one of the angels as well as addicted to the [...]

“Familiar subjects…dealt with in an original form and with a final turn that will surprise you.” –Bibliopolis

“…a chilling, weird tale of an artist with a great hunger.” –The Haunted Weblog

“Haunting passages and scenes…” –Strange Horizons

“Well done and with a nice twist…” –Fantasy Book Critic

“…examines vampirism from an unusual and genuinely horrifying angle.” –SF Site Review

“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

“…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

“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

“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

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

Handsome strangers. Ha. I loved that parts the best.

Beautiful pictures

Great Book

Yumm, best guide ever!