The litosphere seems to be all abuzz lately with speculation on the upcoming Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I have to say that the more I think about it, the more excited I am for April 15th. It simply cannot come soon enough. I figure this book will either be so totally and completely awesome that I love it, or it will be so totally and completely horrible that I will laugh my whole way through it. (There is also the possibility that I will just get angry at it, but I’m not going to consider that right now.)
And of course, thinking on this, I started wondering what other books I’ve loved that would greatly benefit from the addition of zombies. I’ve picked five of my favourites to share with you.
1. Flying Colours by C.S. Forester. Flying Colours and Zombies? Yes please! Imagine: Hornblower, Bush and Brown are in France, escape from their transportation to Bonaparte’s court to be tried, attempt to make their way back to England and all the while they have to dodge and fight zombies as well as the French!
2. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. After Scarlett returns to Tara from Atlanta, she finds that her mother is dead, and her father isn’t sick so much, but is instead a zombie.
3. Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery. Okay, yes, was sick of all the Anne buzz this past year. And the fact that a prequel was made rather made my heart break. But … zombies might actually make this particular book in the series fun and (imo) actually worth reading. While working at that school filled with Pringles, there is a zombie pandemic, and she has to protect the children from reanimated corpses.
4. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol. As if poor Alice doesn’t have enough madness to deal with already! Throw a couple of zombies into Wonderland, and it would be madness as they had never seen it before. I can imagine the White Rabbit already – “Oh dear! Oh dear! Where are my white gloves? And what is this? Oh my dear paws! Zombies! The Queen of Hearts will not be pleased!”
5. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. I would pay good money to see any one of Shakespeare’s plays with zombies in it. But it would certainly be just as fun to read about. But since Twelfth Night is one of my favourites comedies, I would have to pick this one. A woman disguising herself as a man, fending off the attention of another woman, while courting that woman for another man, and fending of zombies? What fun would ensue!
What books would you like to see zombified?