Drawing Blood
| Drawing Blood | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Author(s) | Poppy Z. Brite |
| Cover artist | Miran Kim |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror novel |
| Publisher | Dell |
| Publication date | 1993 |
| Pages | 416 pp (Paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-44-021492-0 (Paperback) |
| OCLC Number | 31368685 |
Drawing Blood is a 1993 novel, the second novel from author Poppy Z. Brite.
[edit] Synopsis
The novel concerns Trevor McGee, a comic book artist and sole survivor of a family murder-suicide, and Zachary Bosch, a bisexual hacker, and their arrival at McGee's old family home in Missing Mile, North Carolina, a fictional town featured in Brite's previous novel, Lost Souls.
Something of a haunted house tale, Drawing Blood was originally entitled Birdland but the publisher retitled it to make a thin connection to Brite's first novel Lost Souls, a vampire tale.
The characters Trevor and Zachary reappear in Brite's short story "Vine of the Soul", published in 1998 in Disco 2000, edited by Sarah Champion.
[edit] Collectibles
When a man set himself on fire in the Los Angeles, California location of a commercial mailbox company, copies of this novel were saturated with the smell of burnt flesh. They were sold by book dealer Barry R. Levin as collectibles.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ David Streitfeld, "A Real Stinker: Book Dealer's Offering Is Under Wraps for a Reason," Washington Post, August 29, 1994.
|
||||||||||||||
 |
This article about a horror novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
