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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance-now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
Quirk Books, 2009

Mick Meets Jane Austen

Webmaster Note: Collector of rare first-editions and arcane books, Mick keeps strange company. In addition to having shared a pint with Irish crime fiction stars Declan Burke and Brian McGilloway, Mick is aquainted with a professional investigator of the supernatural and a plausibly Undead fellow reader. Hereunder is a warts-n-all transcript of Mick's efforts to get the world's only copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that is signed by it author.....

"Jane! Whew! Hold this shovel and give me a breather. Ya old kung-fu chickie, Jane, how the hell are ye? Wish I could say you're looking great , but--- hey, now! Hands! What happened to all that ladylike behavior, you know? The repressed, constrained English dictums and all that, so thoroughly codified by your Georgian prose-? Ah ha! I always suspected it to be a scam, suspecting you old birds were ravenously passionate, under your corsets! I hear you even dated that madman T.C. Boyle.

"Woah! Here, I'm just after answers to a few questions. No snoggin' here, Jane! Now! Is that Seth Grahame-Smith bloke a genius or a scoundrel, coggin' offa Max Brooks? Hey! Hands! In unmentionable places! So, what's your opinion of your co-author Grahame-Smith?"

"Brrrraaainnnnsssss......"

"I thought so, too, Jane. So clever, mixing ninjas and dreadfuls with- hey! Will you get your bony English hands from around my neck and sign this copy? Jane? Jane-!"

"JANE!!!"

Gag! Gag!

SMACK!

Gag!

Zombentino, baby

Critical Mick says: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is quite a diverting gag, though I from my hospital bed maintain it may be best to skim over some of the stilted constructs and unpleasant bits.

(But hey, I also claim to know a mammoth!)

To get the other side of the story, read an interview with Seth Grahame-Smith.

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