You've heard of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," right?

[Orrex]

Well, now there's Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, not to mention Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim.

Ho hum.


I have to say that this whole concept was thoroughly exhausted with the publication of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, if not before. How many more classics will be reenvisioned this way?

IMO it would be far more interesting to craft a wholly new (monster-related) work in a narrative voice appropriate to the time instead of just shoe-horning the concept into yet another public domain classic.


Your thoughts?

[regnaD kciN]

1. To answer your question...

As many as can be rushed out before the craze dies away.

[Orrex]

3. Sadly, that answer is most likely correct.

There's also a reworking of War of the Worlds already in print.

:eyes:

[Ian David]

2. The Grapes of Alien Wrath? n/t

[Sequoia]

4. Hardee, har, har...guess what...a local bookstore here is having a contest

Where you write up a classic story and put in zombies. The best story wins a load of scary books. Maybe...m-m-m-m...To Kill a Zombie Mockingbird?

Oops computer time is up. So long.

[Pyrzqxgl]

5. How about Bible stories with Zombies?

[dbonds]

7. Noah and the arc of Zombies

Zombies in the walls of Jericho.
David vs Goliath and Zombies.
40 days on the mountain with Moses and Zombies.
Sodom and Gomorrah with Vampire Zombies.
Crucified by Zombies.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Becky Sharp dates Cthulhu??

Just throwin' out ideas.

I tried to read Pride and Prejudice, but I spent so much effort sorting out what was going on, that I lost interest.

:hide:

[yellowdogintexas]

8. I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Just finished it.

we will see about the others.

[HamdenRice]

9. I wanna read "A Catcher of Zombies in the Rye" nt

[HamdenRice]

10. Then, I wanna read James Joyce's "The Dead and the Undead"

"Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried <but had clawed his way up out of the grave and was coming for Gretta even as I lay beside her>. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, <at least those that had not been overturned by the Zombies,> on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead <and on the undead>."

[Forkboy]

11. The idea was clever for one book. Now it's just lame.

Though to be fair, we should judge each one on it's merits I guess.