Here’s a post for the Lit fans among us. Co-author Seth Grahame-Smith has appropriated Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice — and as you can guess from the title, a touch of the living dead has been added.

“But no sooner had she grabbed the handle of her weapon than a chorus of screams filled the assembly hall, immediately joined by the shattering of window panes. Unmentionables poured in, their movements clumsy yet swift; their burial clothing in a range of untidiness. Some wore gowns so tattered as to render them scandalous; other wore suits so filthy that one would assume they were assembled from little more than dirt and dried blood. Their flesh was in varying degrees of putrefaction; the freshly stricken were slightly green and pliant, whereas the longer dead were grey and brittle – their eyes and tongues long since turned to dust, and their lips pulled back into everlasting skeletal smiles”.

Ha.

‘Pride And Prejudice’ Heroines Battle The Undead via npr

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at amazon.com

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