Drawing Blood is not a sequel to Lost Souls, although the setting - Missing Mile - stays the same and some of the characters are revisited. When she wrote these novels - back when Poppy Z. Brite still wrote about vampires - I think she was at the top of her game. Her style is dreamlike and addictive. She wrote about some very dark things, but somehow... and maybe it was only Nothing and Ghost that carried it through, but the reader is kept on the light side and through all the ugliness and the hate, we can still see the beautiful and the love. ( )

WOW-What an excellent read...the story is complicated, but the characters of Trevor and Zach are fully fleshed out and their story carries you along, a dark, widning road. More then just a Horror nove, or a haunted house story...it's about 2 haunted lives that meet and fall in love. Brilliant. I would have loved her to continue their story or write more horror-gay fiction, but it seems she has abandoned this genre. Too bad. What an engrossing world and characters she created in this novel-they deserved an after life. ( )

you've heard the saying about how a person can either like elvis, or the beatles? you may say you like both, but deep down, we're all either elvis fans or beatles fans. it's kind of like a turf war.

i feel this way about poppy z brite and anne rice. and go ahead and think badly of me - but i dislike anne rice. i think poppy z brite is the better author. they seem to fill the same space in an already niche-type market, and i if have to choose one, it's poppy without a second thought. this book specifically, and her other books in general, are rich in description. the story is interesting. i like the characters, good and bad. i just can't say enough about poppy. ( )

A pretty decent horror novel about a computer hacker and an artist who shack up in a haunted shack.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who, upon seeing that PZB had brought in familiar characters, hoped she was building a world.

Unfortunately, it kinda stops here. ( )

Not the best of Brite's novels, but it's still a good, solid read about a man tormented by a violent incident in his childhood and the man he meets, who is on the run from the law. Brite always has a great, gritty style of describing things. She's a master of the ugly-pretty. ( )