For the Jane Austen fan who longs for something, uh, different

[pegkerr]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
forthcoming from Quirk Books

(I am not making this up.) From the catalogue description:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice), this insanely funny expanded edition will introduce Jane Austen's classic novel to new legions of fans.

To underscore the, uh, diverse worlds of the original author versus the parody's author, note their authorial bylines:

Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature.

Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn. He lives in Los Angeles.

Comments

[slrose.livejournal.com]

OMG!

[naomikritzer]

There was a play in last year's Fringe called "Shakespeare's Land of the Dead" in which a zombie plague strikes Elizabethan England. As soon as I heard about this, I knew I wanted to go see it -- I wasn't sure it would be good, exactly, but it sounded too bizarre to miss.

But it WAS good. In fact, it was AWESOME. It was AMAZING. And one of the unexpected hits of the Fringe.

So I wouldn't entirely discount the possibility that this will be worth reading, though it definitely doesn't grab me the way the phrase "the true and accurate account of the 1599 zombie plague and the attack on the Globe Theatre" did.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.

Must....stop.....laughing....

[vass]

OMG, WANT.