What other classic novels need zombification?

[norinew]

Thinkgeek.com has a book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (I tried to link to it, but I'm on my daughter's netbook, and it's not letting me click the hyperlink icon). Here's the deal: it's the entire word-for-word Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but at supposedly appropriate places, Zombie Action Bloodbath Scenes (tm) have been added.

When I saw this, I thought it was incredibly amusing, but it got me wondering: what other classic (or maybe not-so-classic) novels would benefit from being Zombified? What say the Dopers?

[BrainGlutton]

Fun with Dick and Jane's Brains!

See the Zombie.

See Jane scream.

See Jane run.

Run, Jane, run!

Trip, Jane, trip!

[Celyn]

"Wuthering Heights" might go well with a few zombies wandering grimly about the moors.

Funny, the book I am re-reading just now is Pride and Prejudice. You know, just a gentle bedtime read. Well it WAS but NOW I'm going to be imagining where the zombies are!

Huh, thanks a bunch, Norinew :D

[mobo85]

The author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is actually doing a follow-up: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

[Snarky_Kong]

The author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is actually doing a follow-up: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

I thought the next project was Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. An authentic biography with Honest Abe killing bloodsuckers in his spare time.

[runner pat]

I do not like green brains and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

[Chimera]

Oliver Twist.

[kunilou]

If you stop to think about it, pretty much any work of literature can be improved with the addition of zombies.

Huckleberry Finn -- As Huck and Tom travel down the Mississippi they run into the King and the Duke, a couple of small-time con artists. How much better would that section have been if they had been brain-eating zombies?

War and Peace -- Pierre Bezukhov is socially awkward and illegitimate. Wouldn't his struggles be even more poignant if he were undead?

Romeo and Juliet -- Since both characters die at the end, wouldn't it have been more exciting if they then reanimated and took revenge on their families?

1984 -- Oceania was always at war with Zombies.

Canterbury Tales -- toss a Zombie into the mix of pilgrims and watch how a light-hearted contest to see who can tell the best story turns into a tale of suspense to see who gets eaten next!

[G0sp3l]

Shogun - All of Ishido's forces could be zombies (maybe then I could read the rest of the books)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Boo Radley: Zombie (I'm sorry)

Ender's Game - The zombie gate is down

[lissener]

I Walked with a Zombie, a lifetime topten classic, is loosely based on Jane Eyre.

[Tristan]

I have never read Pride and Prejudice, but I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I would be VERY surprised if it is as described, because so much of the little things point to the characters being in a Zombie Uprising that it's not like scenes of Zombie mayhem were added.... unless Lizzy was sharpening sabers during the 2nd ball?

[billfish678]

Watership Down.

Replace Brains! with Rabbits!

[Mrs. Cake]

Gotta be Gone With The Wind. After the civil war, the hungry dead head to Tara, which goes from plantation to fortress...

[KRC]

Hey, Mrs Cake, I actually had a nightmare about that once!

We could have Crime and Punishment and Zombies where the child molesters and ax murderers are replaced by the undead.

[Serenata67]

The Scarlet Letter... instead of being a guilty adulteress, she's a ravenous zombie looking to take revenge on the Puritan community that banished her... and eat the brains of the secretly zombie minister...

I think it would end up being a MUCH different play, but I just love the possible title Much Ado about Zombies.

I'm thinking a zombie traipsing randomly through Great Expectations would be great. Oh, wait. I forgot about Miss Havisham.

[kunilou]

Gotta be Gone With The Wind. After the civil war, the hungry dead head to Tara, which goes from plantation to fortress...

Or, Scarlett is a zombie who never has to be hungry again!

[Celyn]

I have never read Pride and Prejudice, but I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

I would be VERY surprised if it is as described, because so much of the little things point to the characters being in a Zombie Uprising that it's not like scenes of Zombie mayhem were added.... unless Lizzy was sharpening sabers during the 2nd ball?

Haha, in a way I suppose she was. :D She was then being a bit snarky with Mr. Darcy, 'cos at that point she believed Wickham's story that he was a bad guy really. So, metaphorically sharpening sabres, yes! Hey, this Zombie version sounds quite well put together. Might have to look out for this one.

All the "Gone With The Wind" ideas sound fun too.

How about "MacBeth"? What with the witches and Banquo's ghost, it might as well have a couple of zombies.

[mobo85]

Practically any play could be improved by adding zombies. A Midsummer Night's Zombie, Ten Little Zombies, Guys and Dolls and Zombies, You're A Good Zombie Charlie Brown, Oh Dad Oh Dad Zombies Ate Your Brains And I Feel So Sad, The Effects of Zombies on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, [title of show with zombies], Six Zombies in Search of an Author...

And if anyone from Disney is reading this- instead of ripping off Romeo and Juliet again, might I suggest Zombie High School Musical?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

How about "MacBeth"?

I'd go with Hamlet II: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are undead

[Telperion]

Undeath of a Salesman
A Farewell to Brains
The Mortemorphosis
Zombie in the Rye
Withering Wights

[tr0psn4j]

The book is already perfect in every way but...

Old Man and the Sea Monster

or, if we're talking strictly zombies: Old Man and the Sea of Zombies

A Tale of Two Zombies - It was the best of times, it was the BRAAAAAAAAAINS!

[Telperion]

Old Man and the Sea of Zombies

I suppose that would be the sequel to Twenty Thousand Zombies Under the Sea, right?

[tr0psn4j]

The Zombie Manifesto? Arguably, Marx's greatest work. Equal brains for all...

... to eat!

[Risha]

Zombie Dick - with Captain Ahab hunting the great zombie whale that ate his leg.

Lord of the Flies - Piggy rises up to slay his tormentors.

[Telperion]

I'm not sure the story of The Brothers Karamazombie would change all that much, but Decomposerone would probably be a bit of a drag to read.

[Der Trihs]

The Bible; after the third day Jesus rises from the dead and performs the miracle of loaves and brains.

The Lord of the Ringswould works with zombie orc armies.

The Stand : Just when you think things can't get any worse . . . it turns out that the Captain Trips superflu had a little after death side effect. Billions of zombies . . .

[Sefton]

Moby Dick! Who wouldn't want to see zombie Ahab take another shot at the white whale?

[Kyla]

Zombies would hugely improve Ulysses. A few zombie bloodbaths and it would become a hell of a lot more readable.

[Love Rhombus]

After the Greek army destroys Troy, the gods take pity on the slain....and bring them back.

[norinew]

The Stand : Just when you think things can't get any worse . . . it turns out that the Captain Trips superflu had a little after death side effect. Billions of zombies . . .
Stephen King already wrote that book. He called it Cell. :D

[Don Draper]

On the Road would lend itself pretty well to a zombie apocalypse scenario. Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, two rebels against square, button-down society (and undead brain-eaters) take to the open roads of America, to discover the totality of existence...and fend off hordes of rampaging mindless flesh-eaters.

[Humble Servant]

Here's the deal: it's the entire word-for-word Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but at supposedly appropriate places, Zombie Action Bloodbath Scenes (tm) have been added.Well, it's not the entire book--they cut out and changed huge parts to make it shorter in addition to zombifying it.

The best part is that it has discussion questions at the end.

[norinew]

Well, it's not the entire book--they cut out and changed huge parts to make it shorter in addition to zombifying it.

The best part is that it has discussion questions at the end.
I appreciate you clarifying that for me. I was going by what the description on the thinkgeek website said.

I haven't read the book (yet), but now I really, really want to.

[De La Rue]

Max Brooks' World Wa (http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/worldwarz/index2.php)--uh, wait a minute...

[Little Nemo]

Zombies would hugely improve Ulysses. A few zombie bloodbaths and it would become a hell of a lot more readable.The best parts are the passages of Zombie Stephen Dedalus' interior monologue narrated in stream of consciousness style:

brains brains brains BRAINS Brains Brains BRAINS brains brains BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS brains brains Brains Brains brains

Brains Brains Brains

Brains brains brains Brains BRAINS Brains

brains?

brains brains brains brains brains brains brains brains brains brains

BRAINS!!!

[tr0psn4j]

Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Zombie-Fearie Finn

[Ellen Cherry]

Oh think how much more palatable (ha!) Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead would be with zombies! Atlas Munched. :D

Seriously I saw this book at the bookstore a week or so ago and laughed so hard I thought I'd embarrass my teenage daughter. She, however, thinks it's hysterical too, and joined me.

The Age of Innocence? All that restraint and then .... suck out their brains!

I can also see a delectable zombified version of A Clockwork Orange. Rape, pillage, murder ... EAT!!

[Der Trihs]

Since the OP mentioned not-so-classic novels, how about Twilight?

"Oooo, cool! His brains are sparkly too!"

* OM NOM NOM NOM NOM *

[pravnik]

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous, brain-eating zombie.

[Harmonious Discord]

The bible. Change all begat to ate pronounced at.

Matthew 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; 1:7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; 1:8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; 1:9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; 1:13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; 1:14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 1:15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

[AK84]

Pretty much any thing Hardy wrote. The Mayor of Casterbridge?

[panache45]

Atlas Munched.
Yes, all the zombies hide out in an invisible valley in Colorado, emerging only to suck out all the brains in the world . . . waiting for the lights of New York to go out . . . then they come back and take over the world.

[Lumpy]

Lord of the FliesThe title becomes especially meaningful as a zombie novel!

Is Frankenstein already a zombie novel, or would it be any different?

[G0sp3l]

HG Wells - The Invisible Zombie

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Red-Headed League... of Zombies (Of course that would make it hard for him to cheat)

[Serenata67]

The bible. Change all begat to ate pronounced at.

Matthew 1:2 Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; 1:3 And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; 1:4 And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; 1:5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; 1:6 And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; 1:7 And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; 1:8 And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; 1:9 And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias; 1:10 And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; 1:11 And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon: 1:12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; 1:13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; 1:14 And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; 1:15 And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Sounds like a good zombie movie to me!

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

I'm going to take my revenge on some high school literature-

Ethan Frome- forced into a loveless marriage, Ethan and his girlfriend Mattie commit suicide via sled. To his dismay, Ethan doesn't stay dead, living up to his nickname of "Old Stiff".

Our Town- Emily dies in childbirth, and climbs out of the grave to reexperience the life she had let go by. Funnily enough, she doesn't remember the whole "brains" thing having been so important.

Hamlet- Hamlet's dad comes lurching back to Elsinore, with the urgent message that, 'Braaaaiiiiins your uncle killed me braaaiiins braaains avenge me braaiiiins eat YOUR BRAIN!"

The Scarlet Letter- Her husband lost at sea, Hester thinks it's safe to start an affair with the shy Rev. Dimmsdale. But, supprise! Hubby is back, and jealous.

The Crucible- the town of Salem is undergoing an epidemic of zombism! Can Reverend Paris find the voodoo witch before the whole town is eaten?

Beowolf- You barely have to make any changes to this one. Grendel=zombie. Grendel's mom=zombie. Dragon=zombie.

[Little Nemo]

H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: As the last of the townspeople were eaten by zombies, they reflected things could be worse. "At least we're being devoured alive by the undead remains of our loved ones and not some alien monstrosities."

[Isamu]

Some (all?) Lifetime Channel movies could benefit from zombification.

Not Without My Zombie 1991, Two stars, Sally Field and Alfred Molina. Rated PG for mild peril and frequent language.

Mother May I Sleep With Zombie 1996, One Star, Tori Spelling, Ivan Sergei, Todd Caldecott.

[Kyla]

On the Road would lend itself pretty well to a zombie apocalypse scenario. Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, two rebels against square, button-down society (and undead brain-eaters) take to the open roads of America, to discover the totality of existence...and fend off hordes of rampaging mindless flesh-eaters.

Yeah, that's actually a TV show on the CW.

[Risha]

Yeah, that's actually a TV show on the CW.Especially considering that, at this point, both main characters have been brought back from the dead via mystical means.

[Kyla]

Especially considering that, at this point, both main characters have been brought back from the dead via mystical means.

You're right! I never realized it til now, but they are clearly zombies. Awesome.