This trend has officially gotten out of control

[dclayh]

• Mansfield Park and Mummies
  
• Emma and the Werewolves
  
• Jane Slayre
  
• The Adventures of Huckeberry Finn and Zombie Jim
  
• Both Little Vampire Women and Little Women and Werewolves

Not to mention Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter, and The Undead World of Oz, Alice in Zombieland... What the hell are future historians

Comments

[bennj]

Lay off Jane Slayre. That one made me laugh almost as much as when I first heard about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which is now on my nightstand).

[bennj]

Today on the AV Club, a review of Android Karenina.

[lizardwizard]

Do you count _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead_?

[sophonax]

OK, those last two don't make sense. There is very little about either Oz or Wonderland that would be wildly incongruent with the existence of zombies, and the crazy incongruity of the two plot elements is the whole point of the joke!

Jane Slayre is pretty funny, though.

[bobbzman]

Wow, really? I declare that the novelty has officially worn out its welcome. Although Jane Slayre is a pretty funny title.

[spindlewise]

See, it seems odd to me to do this to ALREADY GOTHIC novels. I get the appeal of vamping up Austen, but an insane wife locked in the attic is not enough? There's also a lot of references to Bertha Rochester actually being a vampire, or at least behaving like one, so it kind of dials down the intensity if you remove the markers of reality in the book.("She sucked the blood... she said she'd drain my heart." "Of course she did! We live in a world with vampires so that is a very understandable statement!")

I don't know what to make of the sensitivity of markets to popular demand. (Have you been in the children's section lately? I swear, there is no book about Greek mythology that has not been green-lighted since Percy Jackson became a movie.) We all know that's how it works, but when it gets so obvious and pandering it's like being in a relationship with someone creepy-desperate who keeps making themselves over to look like your exes or something.