Celebrated as the author who reinvents traditional tales, Grahame-Smith catalyzed the classic literature/monster mash-up…
Elizabeth Bennet fights zombies. President Abraham Lincoln hunts vampires. And the “three wise men” of the Bible moonlight as murderous thieves.Celebrated as the author who reinvents traditional tales, Grahame-Smith catalyzed the classic literature/monster mash-up trend in 2009 with his debut novel,. The book takes Jane Austen’s original novel and expands upon the story, adding a zombie plague throughout Regency England.
After placing the entire original text in a Word document, Grahame-Smith spent six weeks writing new passages and altering the story. His goal for the new material? Sincerity. Grahame-Smith believed that the book was funny, but he had no expectations that it would be a hit. “The way it worked back then at Quirk was that you printed maybe 5,000 copies of a book and hoped you’d sell them over the course of a year,” he says. “That was basically what I was expecting for this.”
Grand Central Press bought the book based on an outline Grahame-Smith wrote, and he began crafting the “biography” following Lincoln from childhood to his assassination, highlighting the lesser-known details of his vampire hunting exploits.was not to corrupt the character or the ideals of the man and his life, but to find a way to make the themes and the beauty of his life story relevant to something ridiculous.
“I was driving around L.A.,” he says, “and this thought popped into my head: ‘What were the three wise men really doing there that night? Wouldn’t it be funny if this was just a misunderstanding, and they had actually stolen the loot and were looking for a place to hide?’”
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