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<\/a>Jane Slayre<\/a><\/strong>,<\/em> our plucky demon-slaying heroine, is a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic–in the form of his first wife. Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Bronte’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.\u201d<\/p>\n So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton\u2014and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she\u2019s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers\u2014and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield.<\/p>\n Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings. . . .<\/p>\n In Grave Expectations<\/strong><\/a> bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind.\u00a0 But then a mysterious benefactor sends him to London for the finest werewolf education money can buy.<\/p>\n In honor of Halloween I put together this list of five classic novels that have been rewritten with a different twist.\u00a0 What happens when classic literature crosses with the horror genre?\u00a0 You get titles like . . . . Jane …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[825,133,322,96,145,134,146,343,342],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-charles-dickens","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-emily-bronte","tag-great-expectations","tag-jane-austen","tag-jane-eyre","tag-pride-and-prejudice","tag-sense-and-sensibility","tag-wuthering-heights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Zombies\"](\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PrideZombies.jpg\" "\\"Pride")
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<\/a>Heathcliff: Vampire of Wuthering Heights<\/a><\/em><\/strong> starts with a mysterious letter.\u00a0 Lockwood, a law clerk in London and amateur vampire stalker, must investigate, no matter the peril to himself. Traveling into the misty moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood finds the strange owner of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, and becomes trapped in the evil enveloping all of Yorkshire. Driven nearly to madness by his unrequited love for Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff roams the moors and is transformed into one of the undead, a vampire. But when he returns to claim his beloved, he finds that she too is forever changed and cannot become one of the undead.\u00a0 Heathcliff begins a cycle of madness that might satisfy his blood lust, but never his heart\u2019s desire. Now he reveals the history of carnage and revenge to his most unwilling listener and next victim\u2026<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters<\/a><\/strong> expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It\u2019s survival of the fittest\u2014and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"