"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
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.

http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,books/products_id,7847/path,1-10-66/title,Pride-and-Prejudice-and-Zombies/

Wish this had been around when I was still in school............

[ZombieHorde]

1. Holy shit, that looks awesome! K%R%thanks!

[vanderBeth]

2. Is this for real?

Because I really might get it.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. I just checked at Amazon.com.

It is due out in April.

[vanderBeth]

4. It's now on my wish list.

[cali]

5. ack. whatever else it does, it won't introduce a whole new generation

to Austen's novel.

[NashVegas]

7. I Don't Think That's the Idea

I think the intention is more to leave markings on it, if you catch my drift.

[NashVegas]

6. Was This Really Fucking Necessary?

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

The guy looks like the Ann Coulter of literature for doing this. Anything for attention, I guess.

Why do you suppose he couldn't do it to On the Road?

[Soylent Brice]

8. k&r

that's awesome!!!

[road2000]

9. Anyone read Kim Newman's vampires?

This somehow puts me in mind of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron -- vampires, not zombies, but the treatment sounds similar.