Screenwriting Bibliography of Maria Alexander

I'm a produced screenwriter (direct-to-video, TALES FROM THE ACKERMANSION) and was mentored briefly in the film industry by Clive Barker.  These are a few of my speculative scripts. The first two were written with the voice program and the last was edited with it.

Title:  MRS. WINCHESTER
Genre:  True ghost story /Historical romance

1999 Austin Film Festival, Quarterfinalist (2nd Round)

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In 1881, Sarah Lockwood Winchester inherited $20 million, half the Winchester rifle stock...and a curse that drove her West to ceaselessly build a house according to the midnight instructions of the spirits of those killed by her husband’s rifle.  The Winchester Mystery House – the most famous haunted house in California – has doors that open to sheer drops and stairways that go to nowhere.  But was she cursed or merely crazy?  This is the true story of a woman haunted by ghosts and one man’s ill-fated love for her...

Title:   MR. WICKER
Genre:  Dark Fantasy

1999 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Quarterfinalist

In a near-death experience, Alicia Baum discovers The Library of Lost Childhood Memories and its brooding librarian, Mr. Wicker, who tells her she’s missing a lethal memory.  When revived in a Berkeley hospital, she meets a “Patch Adams” child psychologist who competes with Mr. Wicker for both the memories of traumatized children and her affections.  But it’s Mr. Wicker who holds the last page of her life when she steals her “Book.” 

(Novella accepted by the anthology, SF Rising, for publication.)

Title:  CARPE NOCTEM (“Seize the Night”)
Genre:  Horror /Sci-Fi

1998 Austin Film Festival, Quarterfinalist (2nd Round)

A bereaved photojournalist witnesses the suicide of her brother – for the second time.  As she investigates the false reports of his first death and why he took an alias, she discovers an underground population of spider-like aliens.  Unable to see in the daylight, they are engineering a new race that is half human (called “Points”) to control the surface population.  But when she discovers she’s the result of this genetic engineering, she must overcome dangerous political forces that threaten to destroy her and everyone she loves.