Black Alice (novel)

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Black Alice

Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Thom Demijohn (Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek)
Cover artist	Virginia Fritz
Language	English
Genre	Contemporary literature
Publisher	Doubleday & Co.
Publication date	1968
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	235
ISBN	0-11-257522-6 (hardcover reprint edition) & ISBN 2-86930-645-8 (paperback reprint edition)

Black Alice is a fantasy novel by American writers Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek (writing as Thom Demijohn), published in 1968.

In the novel, the schizophrenic heiress to a great fortune is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her kidnappers darken her skin, giving her the appearance of a Black American. The girl encounters racial injustice in the Southern United States and has an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. She eventually realizes that the man who organized her kidnapping was her own greedy father, who is after her inheritance.