Alice Walks

Review "...the exquisitely, excruciating slow and gradual way in which the horror builds and builds to a spectacular climax. What starts out as a lark turns into something far more terrifying. It is this sense of the insidious, all-engulfing nature of the ghost that is the most impressive thing about Alice Walks. --S. T. Joshi"The bristling curiosity of the main characters ... provokes a chilling sense of inevitability and foreboding that will draw the reader into its spiraling narrative. Walking past a graveyard will never the the same again." --Dr. Donna McRae, Writer and Film Director, Johnny Ghost"...a masterpiece, subtle, scary, brilliant. Michael Aronovitz's literate style perfectly suits this frightening tale. His voice is all his own, but contains nostalgic notes of Ray Bradbury and delicious hints of Dan Simmons. Alice Walks is one of the finest ghost stories I've ever loved." --Tamara Thorne, author of Haunted and Belinda: The New Governess"The bristling curiosity of the main characters ... provokes a chilling sense of inevitability and foreboding that will draw the reader into its spiraling narrative. Walking past a graveyard will never the the same again." --Dr. Donna McRae, Writer and Film Director, Johnny Ghost"...a masterpiece, subtle, scary, brilliant. Michael Aronovitz's literate style perfectly suits this frightening tale. His voice is all his own, but contains nostalgic notes of Ray Bradbury and delicious hints of Dan Simmons. Alice Walks is one of the finest ghost stories I've ever loved." --Tamara Thorne, author of Haunted and Belinda: The New Governess Product Description Alice walks. Sher walks 'cause she can't breath. She's angry that you can.Mikey Fitzsimmons and his friends only went to St. Mary's Cemetery to hang out and tell ghost stories. Mikey's father, the gravedigger, had the keys to the mausoleums.Fourteen-year-old Alice Arthur had drowned that past summer. Mikey invented her frightening legend to scare his pals. They made their way down: to open the heavy granite door, to move aside the mosquito netting, to creep up for a closer look at the body.They had no idea what they were to awaken down there. About the Author Michael Aronovitz's debut collection, Seven Deadly Pleasures, was published by Hippocampus Press in 2009. Alice Walks is Aronovitz's first novel. His dark collection The Voices in Our Heads was released by Horrified Press February of 2014, and Hippocampus will publish his novel The Witch of the Wood in December of 2014. His short story The Girl Between The Slats appeared in S.T. Joshi's latest anthology Searchers After Horror, and his short ghost story How Bria Died" was featured in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2011. Michael Aronovitz is a Professor of English and the English Department Chair for a Philadelphia charter school. He lives with his wife Kim and their son Max in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania.