"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant however that I stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength that made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice-more like the hand of a dead than a living man."

- Bram Stoker, Dracula “

… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.”

- Anne Rice, Interview With the

Vampire Hannah Barrett lives and works in Brooklyn and Rhinebeck, NY. Barrett received an MFA from Boston University in painting in 1998. She has had solo exhibitions at Regina Rex, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery and The Gibson House Museum among others. Selected group exhibitions include Kate Werble Gallery, Calicoon Fine Arts, The Brucenniel and National Museum of Women in the Arts.