Drawing Blood

Drawing Blood is a 1993 horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. Brite. Something of a haunted house tale, the novel was originally titled Birdland but the publisher retitled it to make a thin connection to Brite's first novel, Lost Souls, a vampire tale.

Trevor McGee, a comic book artist and the lone survivor of a family murder-suicide, and Zachary Bosch, a bisexual hacker, arrive at McGee's old family house in Missing Mile, North Carolina, a fictional hamlet featured in Brite's earlier novel, Lost Souls. Trevor McGee, 25, is tormented by a memory from his childhood in which his underground artist father, Bobby, ruthlessly murdered Trevor's mother and younger brother with a hammer before dying himself and leaving Trevor alive. Trevor was placed in an unpleasant state home, where he found his own gift for art but stayed alone, preoccupied with why he was permitted to exist.

Detailed information:

Author: Poppy Z. Brite
Language: English
Genre: Horror

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