Quirk Books to release sequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Dread Central reports that Quirk Books, the publishers of the original Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters, will be releasing a prequel to the Jane Austen zombie rehash entitled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls.

The book will not be authored by Grahame-Smith this time around; Steve Hockensmith is the new writer. Dread Central says of the plot,

"...we will watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naive young teenager into 'a savage slayer of the undead.' Rock 'n roll!"

The book is to be released in March 2010. You can catch a preorder on Amazon, or off of the Quirk website.

I've yet to read the first (but I'm getting there), and although I think remaking the original novel into a work of horror was smart thinking, I think a prequel not directly based on the literature may turn into a big flop. Any thoughts?


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