Michael J. Pollack

Nine Circles

Nine Circles is a modern story set in the dark underworld that Dante Alighieri immortalized in Inferno, the first part of his epic poem The Divine Comedy.

At the start of Sydney's senior year of high school, she sells her soul to a demon, destroys everyone she loves in an epic social freefall, then dies at homecoming. She wakes up on the front porch of Hell, where a child appears and offers to guide her through Hell's nine circles toward freedom. Is Sydney ready to face her darkest fears and deepest regrets? More importantly, is she ready to understand forgiveness, find it in herself to forgive others, and develop the self-compassion to forgive herself?

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Overmorrow

In college, Jimmie's long-dormant and unwelcome clairvoyance roars back to life, threatening to jeopardize graduation, ruin his rock band, and end a loving, long-term relationship. To learn how to bend fate so he can help the people he foresees in peril, he must make sacrifices. What if one of those sacrifices is the woman he loves?

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Fear of Dark Water

When he was a child, Jimmie received visions of people in danger, but he didn't have the power to save them. Now a senior in high school, he must embrace the forceful return of his unwanted gift and return to the pond where he once drowned. Within that pond dwells a demon who will draw the people Jimmie loves into an army of darkness if Jimmie can't find a way to stop him.

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Michael J. Pollack, Author

Hi! I'm native to New York's Hudson Valley and the neighboring Berkshire and Catskill mountains, an area rich with local legends. My goal is to evoke strong emotions through atmospheric and cinematic stories that feature flawed heroes who embody the best (and worst) of us, who always know what they want, but learn the hard way what they need. Always grounded in reality, my stories are peppered with the unreal. They can be dark at times, but they never lose sight of the light that keeps hope alive.