It’s all happening again
Posted by Nick Milne on July 16, 2009
Now that we have two points rather than only one it looks like we can safely begin to plot a trend:
Coming Sept. 15, 2009.
And more from the Guardian:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has sold over 50,000 copies in the UK and 600,000 in the US since publication in April, sparking a new trend for what Quirk has dubbed the “literary monster mash-up”. Other publishers have rushed to jump onto the bandwagon, and this autumn will see publication of both Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter – subtitled She Loved Her Country; She Hated Demons – and I am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas. “Marley was dead. Again,” says its publisher Orion. “Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde?”
Seth Grahame-Smith, meanwhile, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, signed a deal worth a rumoured $500,000 (£300,000) in April with Grand Central to write the life of Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter.
Intriguing. I also note with a certain amount of interest that they’re purposefully releasing Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters on the same day as Dan Brown’s latest novel is set to come out. Apparently the people at Quirk Books are all about choosing their battles.
UPDATE: Thanks to the invaluable Craig Burrell, here’s a look at the official trailer for the book – an apparent novelty in its own right:
Tentacles!
Brian Visaggio said
Nick, I think you and I need to write Jane Eyre: Vampire Hunter. The novel already screams it. The woman in the attic. The late night attacks.
Maybe Tess of the Baskervilles. Or Lady Audley’s Horrifying Secret.
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Nick Milne said
As good as Jane Eyre: Vampire Hunter would undoubtedly be, I think the market will end up choked with vampire hunting characters as it is and we need not add to the problem.
Tess of the Baskervilles, however, sounds like just the thing. We’d have to check the current copyright status on the Doyle stuff, of course, but the title alone promises great things.
I think the Lady Audley rehash might have some merit too. Could we make her a Bluebeardess, of sorts? That would fit thematically. We’d have the advantage with this one, too, being the only two people in the world who have read it.
Brian Visaggio said
I’m 100% about this, by the way. Let’s talk.
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