Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

So it is with this in mind that I now present you with the trailer for the movie version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which was released earlier this month.

The movie more fun than the book? Now there’s a rare happening. With SGS penning the screenplay and Tim Burton producing, ironically it remains to this day one of my favorite rainy-Sunday-afternoon-go-to movies, one that I have now seen more times then I care to count. So, having clearly been in the minority on my opinion of the source material, and as the idea was indeed highly original, I queued up in June, 2012 to check out the film version of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Though Quirk had some initial trepidation that Austen fans would rise up in revolt, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies debuted in the number three spot and since that time, the novel has sold over a million copies and been translated into over 20 languages. Using Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice as a platform, it was suggested that SGS mix a zombie plot into the novel which is precisely what he did, comparing the entire creative process to doing “microsurgery” on Austen’s original text. Published in 2009, the idea for the novel came from SGS’s editor at Quirk Books. Which is primarily why I never backtracked and read SGS’s previous foray into this reworked genre, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. But in spite of the fact it debuted at number four on the NYT’s Best Seller List, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter felt a little like SGS had conscripted a public-domained biography of Abraham Lincoln and stuck in some paragraphs here and there about vampires.

And if you’ve ever read one of those stories you might be of the mind that he’s a better screen writer / producer than he is an author.Ĭase in point: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was one of those books I couldn’t get my hands on fast enough back in 2010, having been previously gifted with a copy of SGS’s book How to Survive a Horror Movie (which to this day never fails to make me chuckle). As you probably know by now, the author-side of Seth Grahame-Smith is fond of taking classic tales and turning them into horror stories.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith