Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

How could I resist?

Incongruously enough, I happen to love zombies and Jane Austen in approximately equal measure.

It's being billed as "The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!" and the Chronicle Books description notes that it "features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action."

I like to think that this will be amazing, because how could a comedy of manners NOT be made better with zombies, right? I also tend to love works of fiction that play off of literary classics, most notably Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series and its playful interpretations of Jane Eyre. But I'm definitely nervous that I might find it awful, as I did with The Illustrated Jane Eyre, which set me back decades in my attempt to "get" and appreciate graphic novels.

Yes, I am an uber-geek.

Big props to my friends who hounded me until I posted this, notably Poppy and Sonya. Also mentioned on the LibraryThing blog (where I am referenced and misquoted, haha), Send More Cops, and many others.