# What other classic novels need zombification? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707 "2009-07-29T21:37:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/1 "2009-07-29T21:37:58Z")
[Thinkgeek.com](http://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 ™ 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? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/2 "2009-07-29T21:40:22Z")
**Fun with Dick and Jane’s Brains!** See the Zombie. See Jane scream. See Jane run. Run, Jane, run! Trip, Jane, trip! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/3 "2009-07-30T00:28:19Z")
“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** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/4 "2009-07-30T00:31:53Z")
The author of _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_ is actually doing a follow-up: _Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters_. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/5 "2009-07-30T00:36:39Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/6 "2009-07-30T00:38:58Z")
I do not like green brains and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-am. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/7 "2009-07-30T00:40:44Z")
Oliver Twist. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/8 "2009-07-30T01:03:38Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/9 "2009-07-30T01:35:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/10 "2009-07-30T01:47:56Z")
_I Walked with a Zombie_, a lifetime topten classic, is loosely based on Jane Eyre. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/11 "2009-07-30T01:51:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/12 "2009-07-30T01:54:40Z")
Watership Down. Replace Brains! with Rabbits! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/13 "2009-07-30T02:15:46Z")
Gotta be _Gone With The Wind_. After the civil war, the hungry dead head to Tara, which goes from plantation to fortress… ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/14 "2009-07-30T02:40:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/15 "2009-07-30T02:46:48Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/16 "2009-07-30T02:46:59Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/17 "2009-07-30T02:56:18Z")
> [@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? Haha, in a way I suppose she was. 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/18 "2009-07-30T02:57:35Z")
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_? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/19 "2009-07-30T03:00:18Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > How about “MacBeth”? I’d go with Hamlet II: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are undead ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-classic-novels-need-zombification/504707/20 "2009-07-30T03:34:29Z")
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