For a Dragon*ConTV bumper this year, I made up names of books that might follow “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”. I had “Beowerewolf”, “Grave Expectations”, “Vampire Fair”, “Jude the Undead”, and “Northanger Abbey But This Time Catherine Starts Fires With Her Mind”, among others. I’d thought I’d covered the waterfront.
Then I saw the announcement from Publishers Lunch.
Sarah Gray’s WUTHERING BITES, a retelling of Wuthering Heights in which Heathcliff is a vampire, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington, in a very nice deal, for publication in September 2010, by Evan Marshall at Evan Marshall Agency (World).
Real life is so often funnier than I can ever hope to be.
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I saw an article recently commenting on this trend. It was by the author of “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters”.
Amazonian link: http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Sensibility-Monsters-Jane-Austen/dp/1594744424
What’s extra awesome about that is that Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is being published by the same house as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The author of P&P&Z is off writing Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
I just picked up a copy of “War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies” a few weeks ago, and I just discovered “Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim”
Don’t forget the poetry, like Charge of the Wight Brigade (“Half a leg, half a leg, half a leg, onward!”) and the musical theatre, like Lichs Miserables (“I am a ghoul, I am a ghast/Is Marius undead at last?/I’ve never seen him *urrrgh* and *rrrrrgh*…”)
I hadn’t even considered those genres!