Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has illustrations! Check out the first, where we’re guessing the Bennet sisters are slaying some zombies at the Meryton Assembly.
The book comes out this April 8, 2009! We have pre-ordered our copies and we’re all over this book like Caroline Bingley after some Darcy lovin’.
(Image is via Irreference, the book’s publisher.)
We just got an indirect tip from one of the few insiders who’s read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that Jane Austen’s original Pride and Prejudice text is unabridged with “maybe a few alterations”, and the incorporation of the zombie story is “absolutely amazing”. For many horror, fantasy, and sci-fi fans, this is going to be the first time they’ve read Jane Austen at all.
It’s been an ongoing trend to adapt Jane Austen stories, and especially Pride and Prejudice, to new settings (including Bollywood), to write sequels and new versions of the story from other points of view (like the Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman series), and even to add a modern sci-fi twist (as in Lost in Austen). But none of these stories reuse all of the original Austen text with little rewriting, as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is said to do. It’s gutsy — and I can’t wait to read it.
Hollywood is dying to reach the coveted Jane-Austen-slash-Zombie fan demographic, with studios already fighting for the movie rights to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Other examples of literary classics that have been turned into successful zombie flicks include, according to /film, the 1943 film I Walked with a Zombie
We haven’t seen I Walked with a Zombie yet, but we Netflixed the DVD … so stay tuned if you want to hear more about it.
P&P&Z Author Grahame-Smith
Being a huge fan of both Jane Austen and zombie lit, I was already sold on this book, but if I hadn’t been, the author’s Valentine’s day blog post from Darcy to Elizabeth
Seth Grahame-Smith,
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