BIOGRAPHY
Michael Aronovitz has been writing horror fiction since 2009. Along with his two collections and two novels, he has published short stories and critical articles in a variety of magazines. In 2011 his short story "How Bria Died" appeared in Paula Guran's "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and in 2014 his short story "The Girl Between the Slats" appeared in S.T. Joshi's "Searchers After Horror" anthology. Aronovitz is a Professor of English and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Kim and their son Max.
NEW PROJECTS!
Michael Aronovitz's first young adult novel titled "Becky's Kiss" will be coming out under the pen name Nicholas Fisher in November of 2015 through Vinspire Press.
Michael Aronovitz's third novel titled "Phantom Effect" will be coming out in a fall 2015 release by Night Shade Books.
CURRENT BOOKS
Aronovitz's first collection titled "Seven Deadly Pleasures" came out through Hippocampus Press in 2009, and is currently available.
A ghost haunts an urban charter school. The Grim Reaper makes a bet with a young stock broker that is life-threatening, and a baby sitter tells a horror story creating a monster that comes alive right there in the house. Devils, horrific car accidents, strange parasitic voyeurism, and scary clowns, this collection merges psychological horror with the strange supernatural.
http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/seven-deadly-pleasures-by-michael-aronovitz
Aronovitz's second collection titled "The Voices in Our Heads," came out through Horrified Press in 2014, and is currently available.
An evil spirit still haunts the dark forest in Caln Township, Pennsylvania. A hideous vampire sucks breath instead of blood, and a serial killer is kidnapping beautiful college co-eds and reanimating them to fit his vision of what makes a true "doll." These twelve stories are themed after the months of the year, and each is written in a different tone or voice.
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Our-Heads-Michael-Aronovitz/dp/1291655638/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418934237&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Voices+in+Our+Heads
Aronovitz's first novel titled "Alice Walks" came out in collector's hard cover with illustrations by Sam Araya in 2013, and is currently available.
Alice Walks. She walks 'cause she can't breathe. She's angry that you can.
Mikey Fitzsimmons and his friends only went to Saint Mary's Cemetery to hang out and tell ghost stories. Mikey's father, the gravedigger, had 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 close look at the body. They had no idea what they were to awaken down there.
http://www.centipedepress.com/horror/alicewalks.html
"Alice Walks" has been released in trade paperback at a low-low $15.95 from Dark Renaissance Books!
http://darkrenaissance.com/product/alice-walks
REVIEWS
Aronovitz has written a number of critical reviews. Below are the links and an excerpt from Aronovitz's most current review.
1) Review of the Showtime series "Dexter" Season 7.
http://www.chizinepub.com/ma_review_dexter7.htm
2) Review of Ursula Dabrowsky's first Independent Film "Family Demons."
http://www.chizine.com/ma_review_family_demons.htm
3) Review of Donna McRae's Independent Film "Johnny Ghost."
http://hellnotes.com/johnny-ghost-film-review
4) Review of Tamara Thorne's novel "Eternity."
http://hellnotes.com/eternity-book-review
CURRENT REVIEW
February, 2015.
Excerpt From Aronovitz's Review of Ursula Dabrowsky's Independent Film Titled, Inner Demon
For the complete review click the link below:
http://www.ursuladabrowsky.com/news/michael-aronovitzs-review-of-ursula-dabrowskys-inner-demon/
Many of us have been anxiously awaiting the release of Ursula Darbowsky’s independent horror movie, Inner Demon. Since the teaser-trailer showed up on social media two or so years ago, fans of the genre have eagerly anticipated the film that promised such raw beauty in the filming and dynamic precision in terms of its soundtrack. The feature lengthed film does not disappoint. In fact, it exceeds expectations and remains an experience so profound that within seconds the viewer forgets he or she is watching a movie. This is a story, so powerful that it seems divorced from the process of “playing out” in the context of the more generic rise to climax and resolution. The viewer is involved with this one. Absorbed. It is deeply personal.
This uncommon “closeness” (or rather discordant yet aesthetic familiarity) between the footage of Inner Demon and its observer is achieved in a number of ways. First, the camera work is especially delicate and insightful, so rare a thing to find weaved within such harsh subject matter (the kidnapping of a fifteen year old and her tween sister by a serial killer couple), and the contrast is inevitably disturbing. At the beginning, almost as an establishing point, we have little Maddy played by Scarlett Hocking claiming that there is something under her bed, the possible cliché, except for the cinematic manner through which we “see” the big sister Sam (Sarah Jeavons) handle the affair. As the two kneel to look beneath the box spring, the camera bobs down from the opposite side of the bed as they do, almost in mimic. This brings up a point of view that is difficult to identify, since it does not belong to either sister, or the kidnappers who are not yet in the house. Were the shot stationary, the omniscience would be static as it were, commonly neutral, but the mobility gives this particular omni-presence a malignancy, a theme that unfolds throughout the entire piece in a delightful assortment of startling vignettes.
Michael Aronovitz has been writing horror fiction since 2009. Along with his two collections and two novels, he has published short stories and critical articles in a variety of magazines. In 2011 his short story "How Bria Died" appeared in Paula Guran's "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and in 2014 his short story "The Girl Between the Slats" appeared in S.T. Joshi's "Searchers After Horror" anthology. Aronovitz is a Professor of English and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Kim and their son Max.
NEW PROJECTS!
Michael Aronovitz's first young adult novel titled "Becky's Kiss" will be coming out under the pen name Nicholas Fisher in November of 2015 through Vinspire Press.
Michael Aronovitz's third novel titled "Phantom Effect" will be coming out in a fall 2015 release by Night Shade Books.
CURRENT BOOKS
Aronovitz's first collection titled "Seven Deadly Pleasures" came out through Hippocampus Press in 2009, and is currently available.
A ghost haunts an urban charter school. The Grim Reaper makes a bet with a young stock broker that is life-threatening, and a baby sitter tells a horror story creating a monster that comes alive right there in the house. Devils, horrific car accidents, strange parasitic voyeurism, and scary clowns, this collection merges psychological horror with the strange supernatural.
http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/seven-deadly-pleasures-by-michael-aronovitz
Aronovitz's second collection titled "The Voices in Our Heads," came out through Horrified Press in 2014, and is currently available.
An evil spirit still haunts the dark forest in Caln Township, Pennsylvania. A hideous vampire sucks breath instead of blood, and a serial killer is kidnapping beautiful college co-eds and reanimating them to fit his vision of what makes a true "doll." These twelve stories are themed after the months of the year, and each is written in a different tone or voice.
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Our-Heads-Michael-Aronovitz/dp/1291655638/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418934237&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Voices+in+Our+Heads
Aronovitz's first novel titled "Alice Walks" came out in collector's hard cover with illustrations by Sam Araya in 2013, and is currently available.
Alice Walks. She walks 'cause she can't breathe. She's angry that you can.
Mikey Fitzsimmons and his friends only went to Saint Mary's Cemetery to hang out and tell ghost stories. Mikey's father, the gravedigger, had 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 close look at the body. They had no idea what they were to awaken down there.
http://www.centipedepress.com/horror/alicewalks.html
"Alice Walks" has been released in trade paperback at a low-low $15.95 from Dark Renaissance Books!
http://darkrenaissance.com/product/alice-walks
REVIEWS
Aronovitz has written a number of critical reviews. Below are the links and an excerpt from Aronovitz's most current review.
1) Review of the Showtime series "Dexter" Season 7.
http://www.chizinepub.com/ma_review_dexter7.htm
2) Review of Ursula Dabrowsky's first Independent Film "Family Demons."
http://www.chizine.com/ma_review_family_demons.htm
3) Review of Donna McRae's Independent Film "Johnny Ghost."
http://hellnotes.com/johnny-ghost-film-review
4) Review of Tamara Thorne's novel "Eternity."
http://hellnotes.com/eternity-book-review
CURRENT REVIEW
February, 2015.
Excerpt From Aronovitz's Review of Ursula Dabrowsky's Independent Film Titled, Inner Demon
For the complete review click the link below:
http://www.ursuladabrowsky.com/news/michael-aronovitzs-review-of-ursula-dabrowskys-inner-demon/
Many of us have been anxiously awaiting the release of Ursula Darbowsky’s independent horror movie, Inner Demon. Since the teaser-trailer showed up on social media two or so years ago, fans of the genre have eagerly anticipated the film that promised such raw beauty in the filming and dynamic precision in terms of its soundtrack. The feature lengthed film does not disappoint. In fact, it exceeds expectations and remains an experience so profound that within seconds the viewer forgets he or she is watching a movie. This is a story, so powerful that it seems divorced from the process of “playing out” in the context of the more generic rise to climax and resolution. The viewer is involved with this one. Absorbed. It is deeply personal.
This uncommon “closeness” (or rather discordant yet aesthetic familiarity) between the footage of Inner Demon and its observer is achieved in a number of ways. First, the camera work is especially delicate and insightful, so rare a thing to find weaved within such harsh subject matter (the kidnapping of a fifteen year old and her tween sister by a serial killer couple), and the contrast is inevitably disturbing. At the beginning, almost as an establishing point, we have little Maddy played by Scarlett Hocking claiming that there is something under her bed, the possible cliché, except for the cinematic manner through which we “see” the big sister Sam (Sarah Jeavons) handle the affair. As the two kneel to look beneath the box spring, the camera bobs down from the opposite side of the bed as they do, almost in mimic. This brings up a point of view that is difficult to identify, since it does not belong to either sister, or the kidnappers who are not yet in the house. Were the shot stationary, the omniscience would be static as it were, commonly neutral, but the mobility gives this particular omni-presence a malignancy, a theme that unfolds throughout the entire piece in a delightful assortment of startling vignettes.