Twisted Retelling f Classic Children's Stories: Take 5 on Alice Through the Looking Glass : The White Rabbit Chronicles Boxed Set: Alice in Zombieland,Through the Zombie Glass,The Queen of Zombie Hearts,A Mad Zombie Party Paperback – September 27, 2016 by Gena Showalter (Harlequin);Splintered (Splintered Series #1): Splintered Book One Paperback – February 18, 2014 by A. G. Howard (Amulet Paperbacks);The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor(Speak Books); Alice in the Country of Hearts, Vol.1,2,3 QuinRose and Soumei Hoshino Paperback (Yen Press);

Twisted fairy tales are nothing new and there are a slew of them. This fall TV season, however, Once Upon a Time is getting a bit more specific with a special Alice in Wonderland themed spinoff (on ABC). In case you didn’t know it, there is also a very popular Alice video game called Alice Madness Returns. And there is no lack of Alice in YA lit, either.

Here is a list of 5 fun titles of some twisted takes on the Alice story.

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter



Alice. Figthing zombies. Really, that’s all that needs to be said. Oh, and I love this series.

Splintered by A. G. Howash



Has Alice fallen into madness like her mother? Or can Wonderland be real?

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor



Alyss flees Wonderland and finds herself in Victorian London where she tells her story to a man named Lewis Carrol. How can she trust him to tell her story so she can be rescued when he can’t even spell her name correctly?

Alice in the Country of Hearts


Alice gets the manga treatment. 2010. Rated OT: Older Teen 16+


Okay so may it is not an actual retelling of Alice, but Coraline does go down a sort of rabbit hole – in this case a door. And she does find an alternate version of her world. There are whole essays about the correlations on line, they are fascinating.