Alexandra Sokoloff is a Hollywood screenwriter, novelist and author of two psychological suspense/horror novels — The Harrowing: A Ghost Story and The Price.
All this month you can view the book trailer for The Price here on …With Intent to Commit Horror website (over there, to the right, in the multimedia box — just click the arrow to run it) and the trailer for The Harrowing: A Ghost Story on The Lair of the Undead Rat website.
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Nominated for the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel Baird College’s Mendenhall echoes with the footsteps of the last home-bound students heading off for Thanksgiving break, and Robin Stone swears she can feel the creepy, hundred-year-old residence hall breathe a sigh of relief for its long-awaited solitude. Or perhaps it’s only gathering itself for the coming weekend. As a massive storm dumps rain on the isolated campus, four other lonely students reveal themselves: Patrick, a handsome jock; Lisa, a manipulative tease; Cain, a brooding musician; and finally Martin, a scholarly eccentric. Each has forsaken a long weekend at home for their own secret reasons. The five unlikely companions establish a tentative rapport, but they soon become aware of a sixth presence disturbing the ominous silence that pervades the building. Are they the victims of a simple college prank taken way too far, or is the unusual energy evidence of something genuine and intent on using the five students for its own terrifying ends? It’s only Thursday afternoon, and they have three long days and dark nights before the rest of the world returns to find out what’s become of them. But for now it’s just the darkness keeping company with five students nobody wants and no one will miss. |
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Nominated for the 2008 Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Novel 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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You can visit Alexandra’s website Alexandra Sokoloff.com to find out more about this author.
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I am a fan of Horror Fiction, and this is a truely amazing book. I will admit that set up takes a bit but it is merely a fuse to an explosive story that I was unable to put down. In my first sitting I got through the set up (approx 6 chapters) in my second I finished the book. Genuinely creepy, fast paced, great imagery. It seems alot of the horror novels of late have moved to the same as film, graphic depictions of violence and sex. This has neither. I am eager to see what this Author will do in the future. It has been years since a book has creeped me out in this way. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!