Plans are on the drawing board for a new look and a renewed commitment to horror fiction. The next incarnation of …With Intent to Commit Horror will be the best one yet.
This week on DearReader.com’s Horror Club, we are getting a peek at the first section of a book called The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff.
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The PriceAuthor: Sokoloff, Alexandra |
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Boston’s Briarwood Medical Center is a bewildering maze of six separate hospitals symbiotically entwined, connected by glass bridges, underground tunnels, indoor and outdoor gardens — its own self-contained city. But Briarwood, like every hospital, is also a threshold . . . to the other side. Idealistic Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan, son of a political family, is the front runner in the Massachusetts Governor’s race — until his five-year old daughter Sydney is diagnosed with a malignant, inoperable tumor. Now Will and his wife Joanna, whom he loves more than life, are living at Briarwood Hospital, waiting for their daughter to die. Joanna is slowly losing her mind with grief and Will himself starts to question his own sanity. He has begun to see bizarre and inexplicable things around him — patients disappearing from elevators, monstrous nuns watching from the shadows. A doctor assures Will that he’s suffering from a not uncommon stress reaction — the ongoing trauma of his circumstances coupled with severe sleep deprivation is bringing on these hallucinations. But Will knows there’s more going on at Briarwood. The strange occurrences seem to center around a dark, charismatic counselor named Salk who befriends Will and talks mysteriously about the power of faith to heal. Will is intrigued, but too much of a rationalist to believe — until he starts to see patients who have talked to Salk miraculously recover. One terrifying night, Sydney goes into renal failure and is rushed into emergency surgery. Joanna disappears that night and doesn’t return until morning. Sydney not only survives the surgery, but in fact has gone into remission. And Salk has completely disappeared — the hospital administration has no knowledge of him — he was never on staff at all. Will begins to suspect that Joanna has made a terrible deal to save their daughter’s life. Now he must uncover the truth in order to save them all. |
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Interested in The Price?
It’s not too late to sign up for the DearReader.com’s Horror Club, and get this week’s e-mails with the first section of The Price. Read the beginning for free and decide for yourself if you like it. And if you’re joining in the middle of the week, you can click on this link to get the first e-mails you missed or look at the top of your very first e-mail for instructions.
As an added bonus, if you sign up today and then click on the link to get the back issues, you’ll not only be able to select the first couple of e-mails for The Price but also all five e-mails previewing Edward Lee’s House Infernal.
DearReader.com’s Horror Club is a free service and an excellent way to test out new horror writers before you buy them or check them out of your local library. Every other week you get five e-mails, one each weekday, with another portion of the book’s first pages. You can spend 10 minutes reading it or delete it if you already know this book is not for you. There is no obligation and no monster comes to your door to sell you stuff.
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