Victhor The Viking | 
11 13th, 2009| 
Author Alexander Gordon Smith will be bloging at Tor.com about horror and other creepy stuff. Rock on!
My name is Alexander Gordon Smith, the author of the YA horror book Lockdown. I’m thrilled to be able to blog on Tor.com, and I’m going to use this opportunity to talk about writing, horror, books and hopefully loads more too. But I wanted to start by posting an exclusive bonus chapter!
Lockdown follows teenage criminal Alex Sawyer as he attempts to escape the hell on earth that is Furnace Penitentiary. Life inside Furnace is worse than your most terrifying nightmares—savage gangs, brutal guards, skinless dogs and the filthy Wheezers who drag you kicking and screaming into the blood-drenched tunnels below. Not to mention the warden, who may or may not be the devil himself.
But it isn’t all violence and heartbreak. There may not be good days inside, but there are okay days, days when you can almost forget you’ll never see daylight again, never talk to your parents, never eat macaroni and cheese, never kiss a girl. On those days, you can almost convince yourself you’re still free.
Almost.
Take a look below at this bonus chapter—not in the book—for a glimpse of humanity in the most inhuman place on the planet.
via Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The incarceration has begun….
