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Library Picks: Literary Monster Mashups
These reads are on the shelf waiting to be picked up.
Classics meet horror in the monster mash-up. Author Seth Grahame-Smith started it all with his 2009 surprise bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. If you like action and don’t mind a little gore, check out these books, selected by Stacey Popule in the Reference Department, for a new take on the classics. It’s the craze that just…won’t…die…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith: Written as a historical account based upon a “long lost journal” of Abraham Lincoln, this novel features the vampire-slaying adventures of our 16th president and his pal Edgar Allen Poe.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith: A zombie plague has descended upon England, and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy join forces and fall in love during their quest to wipe out the undead.
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Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A.E. Morat: Young Queen Victoria’s reign takes a surprising turn when she finds out that she is responsible for ridding England of the demons trying to seize the Crown.
Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland: Did you know that all of Shakespeare’s works were based upon his centuries of life experience? Vampire William joins forces with his mortal love Kate to rid England of necromancers and zombies.
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The Undead World of Oz by L. Frank Baum and Ryan C. Thomas: Dorothy definitely isn’t in Kansas anymore! The Wicked Witch of the West has cast a spell over the Land of Oz, bringing the dead back to life, and it’s up to Dorothy and her friends to save Oz.
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