Shakespeare: the Monster Mash-Up Edition
OK, don't know how many of you have heard of Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies or his projected follow-up, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but now's there's another classic v. monster mash-up on the horizon:
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
So it's got me to thinking:
[What about a Shakespearean monster mash-up?]
Which play? What monster?
My wife Lisa's vote is for vampires (she's devoured the Twilight novels [though with less and less enthusiasm] as well was the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris (the source for HBO's True Blood) and the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books by Laurell K. Hamilton), with maybe Friar Laurence being a blood sucker himself (the potion he gives Juliet is just to incapacitate her before he turns her... and when he finds Romeo in the chamber, he is touched by their romanticism and turns them both)... it might just work.
In "all my spare time," I might even play around with the idea... any others out there?
I was finally able to get through Pride and Prejudice this summer but ONLY because I read the zombie version. I really hope they continue this practice and could list other "classics" that need zombification (an interesting approach since these are the very books that turn their readers into zombies). My first suggestions: The Scarlet Letter and Red Badge of Courage. These two books make me hesitate to consider any title with "red" in it. I can just see Pearl as some sort of supernatural menace and the battle scenes from Courage would gain some more drama.
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Funny, I ALWAYS saw Pearl as an entity that wasn't exactly human...
But Red Badge of Courage... oh, baby, that CRIES out for zombification... maybe he can only achieve heroism (after his running) by killing zombies by the score!
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maybe 87 zombie kills... (four score and seven!)
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