[nickcarraway]

'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' author talks about his literary monster mash-up

Maybe because this is one of the most conservative novels in literature?

[Cailleach]

ping!

[Skooz]

[Old Sarge]

THE VOTERS ARE COMING! THE VOTERS ARE COMING!
What are they all saying??
"PIIIIIEEEE!!! PPIIIIIIEEEE!!!"

[kaylar]

Maybe. But I don't care-I would pay money to see a movie combining zombies and Jane Austen. There, I said it.

Actually, there have been quite a few short stories published since 1980 (when I began reading SF and fantasy magazines, and purchasing anthologies of SF , fantasy,and/or horror)that have combined Jane Austen and fantastic tropes. One recent one (2007 or 2008, F & SF magazine) had Mary Austen meet Dr Victor Frankenstein. Susanna Clarke did several short stories about the Austen sisters using paranormal powers and espionage to bring down Napoleon Bonaparte. And Clarke used a "Mrs Bullworth" who was an obvious parody of Mrs Rushworth from Mansfield Park in her great novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.

Now that I think of it, zombies and Mansfield Park would be a pretty good fit...

[SunkenCiv]

Quirk Books announced the publication of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," an edition of Austen's classic juiced up with "all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem" by a Los Angeles television writer named Seth Grahame-Smith.

Must be an improvement.

[Billthedrill]

I don't see it myself. But War and Peace, now, with zombie armies fighting at the gates of Moscow, yeah, that I could see.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

. The book, probably the first Austen/horror mashup to make it into print, is roughly 85 percent Austen’s original text, with references to monsters, putrefying flesh and ninja swordplay added on just about every page.

O-Kay then....

:Backing away slowly while keeping Mossberg at the ready: