Michael asked Christina Henry:

First, I want to say, I've been had by Lewis Carroll inspired weird/speculative/horror fiction lots of times… too many times. Your book is the one I've read so much garbage to find. It FEELS like Alice, but it's not Alice. It's a well-written, astonishingly dark and scary incarnation of Alice that's entirely yours. I'm happy to have it on my iBooks shelf! What inspired you to write your Alice?

Christina Henry I've always loved ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (it's one of the first books I remember reading when I was young). The character of Alice has really become imprinted in our cultural memory - everyone knows Alice and has a favorite version of her, whether it's from the original story or a film or an adaptation like mine. She's become almost mythological in that sense, and I wanted to play with that idea - take the skeleton of Carroll's story and put my own blood and muscle and skin on it.

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