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Jane Austen's Fight Club

 
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Man, I wish they would make this movie for realz:

 
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Lizzi is obviously from Pride and Prejudice. And Emma, I guessed is from Emma. All the rest, I had to look up.

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ROFLMAO
 
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Close enough?

(And I know Ernest is jealous of Natalie Portman's Erdős number.)
 
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Michael, OMG, I so hope they do actually make that!
 
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They probably will - they just need to get it out before the public is sick of the idea. There's already a glut of these mashups in bookstores now:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Android Karenina
Little Women and Werewolves
Little Vampire Women
Jane Slayre
Mansfield Park and Mummies
Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers - A Canterbury Tale
Emma and the Werewolves
The Undead World of Oz
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
Alice in Zombieland
The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies

and for the more historically inclined:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter

What next - will they be adding ghosts, witches and magical faeries to the works of Shakespeare? Monsters to Beowulf? Oh, wait... never mind.

I'm not making any of those titles up - they're all available in bookstores now. But in case anyone here wants to try to cash in on this craze while they can, I offer these title suggestions:

Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karmazombie
Tolstoy: The Undeath of Ivan Ilyich
Dumas: The Wolfman in the Iron Mask
Melville: Zomby-Dick
Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea Serpent
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (same title, but with dismembered zombies on the cover)
Steinbeck: The Apes of Wrath
 
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Hmm, this one looks like it might actually be worth checking out:

De Bello Lemures, Or The Roman War Against the Zombies of Armorica

And by odd coincidence, just the other day I was rereading A Study in Emerald, a nifty mix of Sherlock Holmes with the Cthulhu mythos. It's a short story written well before the current glut, by Neil Gaiman. It's quite short, but does rely on some previous knowledge of both the Sherlock Holmes canon and Lovecraft's work. Or a bit of extra research on the reader's part, which is pretty easy nowadays. Recommended.
 
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