ALiCE

Not to be confused with Alice or Joker, though the titles are the same. This entry would be titled ALiCE if the name wasn't already taken, since JOKeR was just the rough version of its first three chapters that were tacked on in the end as bonus material so the readers could see What Could Have Been, since the two are incredibly different.

A psychological horror written by Avalon Roselin, which has since completed its run and the raw edit chapters are available on her deviantart gallery.

ALiCE is centered around Christopher Robinson, a hopeful young orderly working at Woodrow Children's Asylum who suddenly finds himself in a strange town called Wonderland after presumably falling to his death while driving to town to get supplies in the first chapter. Mind Screw ensues as he tried to find his favorite charge, Mickey, and encounters the residents of the town, all of whom are just a little bit off, perhaps even himself.


 * Abandoned Hospital
 * Action Girl: Prima
 * Adult Fear: Lost child on an island of crazies
 * Advancing Wall of Doom: In the last chapter as
 * Alice Allusion: TONS.
 * Alone in The Dark
 * Always Night: Almost
 * All There in the Manual: . There is also a lot of extra information and drawings on the above deviantart account, as well as the author's tumblr. Even this entry contains information that only exists in the edited version, which hasn't been released yet.
 * Arc Number: 317
 * Author Appeal: Played straight and deconstructed; mental instability, Alice in Wonderland references, and  appear in other works by the author, as well as the fact that she is a huge fan of horror, but the way that the story is now came to be out of the author writing down a list of all her major phobias and then writing a book that includes all of them.
 * Battle in The Center of The Mind: Averted with the Big Bad but otherwise played straight in hindsight
 * Bedlam House: Woodrow Children's Asylum and the third floor of the hospital
 * Blood Spattered Innocents
 * Bloody Handprint: The school has several in the hallway, and there are others in various locations
 * Body Horror
 * Break the Cutie: Christopher, Matthew,
 * Chekhov's Gun: The medicine bottle at the beginning
 * Circus of Fear
 * Creepy Cemetery
 * Creepy Child: Mickey and the children ghosts
 * Creepy Doll: Thanks to the Adaptation Expansion brought on by the edit
 * Deliberately Cute Child: Mickey
 * The Doll Episode: Christopher's brief visit to Joseph and Mary's home
 * Dramatic Thunder
 * Driven to Madness:
 * Eldritch Abomination: Several throughout
 * Evil Orphan: Subverted;
 * Eye Scream
 * Fate Worse Than Death / And I Must Scream:
 * Follow the White Rabbit: Christopher spends the first half of the novel trying to find Mickey and essentially following his tracks, or at least going to places he thinks Mickey might be. It's later revealed that Mickey is actually wearing a sweater that has a white rabbit on it.
 * The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
 * Fridge Brilliance: When asked what their overall impression of the story was, several beta readers mentioned that the chapters don't really seem to relate to one another outside of a loose overarching plot. The main source of inspiration for ALiCE was Alice in Wonderland.
 * Ghost Town
 * Go Among Mad People
 * Go Mad From the Revelation
 * Happy Place: Godwin's Deli, until...
 * House of Broken Mirrors: The Funhouse
 * It Was a Dark And Stormy Night: The best weather ever shown is a light drizzle
 * Jekyll and Hyde:  can be seen as this
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * The Mad Hatter:
 * Mad Scientist: The doctors at the hospital, who are never seen because they are too scary to
 * Madwoman in The Attic: Sadly, almost all the children at Woodrow Asylum qualify
 * Mind Rape
 * Monster Clown: Actually a Giant Mechanical Poisonous Clown-Headed Spider
 * Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: The drawings that Christopher finds in the school, which contribute quite a bit to his Sanity Slippage
 * Nothing Is Scarier
 * Ominous Fog: Played with
 * Papa Wolf: Christopher to Mickey
 * Peek a Boo Corpse: So often that some readers expected them to fall out of everything
 * Primal Fear: Being trapped in a small space, being buried alive,, the dark, the unknown...
 * Psychic Powers:  are implied to have these
 * Psychological Horror
 * Psychopathic Manchild:
 * Red Sky Take Warning: Happens a few times
 * Town Full Of Crazy
 * Sanity Slippage: Arguably everyone, and the town itself, as the story progresses. Most notably Christopher, given that the story is told in third-person limited from his point of view and thus making him the most noticeable. In the beginning he reacts to things the way a normal person would, by freaking out and/or questioning how certain things are even possible. The more he loses his grip on reality, the less he questions how the world around him works.
 * Serial Killer:
 * Shout-Out: When the number of references to horror movies, books, video games, Alice in Wonderland, and Vocaloid songs are made into a Drinking Game, most will probably be passed out by the end of the first chapter.
 * The giant clown-spider is a Shout-Out to IT
 * Prima wields a bat with a symbolic word written on it, similarly to Yuko from xxxHOLiC
 * The edited version replaces the -esque poem with the real-life version of the poem in Alice Madness Returns.
 * The streets that Christopher has to go through to get to Joseph and Mary's house are Oyster Way and Walrus Avenue; they live on Carpenter Street.
 * Stepford Smiler:, most fitting with Type B; also Joseph and Mary
 * Strapped to An Operating Table: How Christopher's stay in the town begins
 * Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The book ends with
 * Unreliable Narrator: The reader doesn't find out until the end that
 * The Undead: Mostly avoided until the end
 * What Did I Do Last Night??
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? / Harsher in Hindsight: Christopher has arachnophobia, and is slightly homophobic.
 * Yandere:
 * Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The book ends with
 * Unreliable Narrator: The reader doesn't find out until the end that
 * The Undead: Mostly avoided until the end
 * What Did I Do Last Night??
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? / Harsher in Hindsight: Christopher has arachnophobia, and is slightly homophobic.
 * Yandere:

Sleep well.