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"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" - a fiendishly clever mash-up of
Jane Austen's beloved classic with all-new scenes of zombie mayhem
- is "A New York Times" bestseller and a major pop culture
phenomenon. This graphic novel adaptation, featuring all-original
art, will bring this sensational tale to a whole new audience. 'It
is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of
brains must be in want of more brains'. So begins "Pride and
Prejudice and Zombies" - Jane Austen's immortal classic, now
brought to glorious, gory new life with original, all-new scenes of
zombie mayhem. Seth Grahame-Smith's irreverent and witty reworking
of this novel immediately struck a nerve: The book quickly became
"A New York Times" bestseller - and one of the most buzzworthy and
blogged-about pop culture sensations of the year. Now "Pride and
Prejudice and Zombies" is a graphic novel - the perfect format to
bring this remixed masterpiece to zombie-loving pop-culture fans.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie inpossession
of brains must be in want of more brains." Sobegins Pride and
Prejudice and Zombies-- Austen's classicfiendishly mashed-up with
scenes of zombie mayhem. Thisgraphic novel adaptation of the New
York Times bestsellerand major pop culture phenomenon, featuring
original art,will bring this sensational tale to a whole new
audience.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession
of brains must be in want of more brains."
So begins "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," an expanded edition
of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of
bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious
plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton--and
the dead are returning to life Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is
determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted
by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues
is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring
between the two young lovers--and even more violent sparring on the
blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of
Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious
landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights,
cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, "Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies "transforms a masterpiece of world literature into
something you'd actually want to read.
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that
surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln
kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with
something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal
affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his
journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and
devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this
mastery shall have but one purpose.".." Gifted with his legendary
height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of
vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and
freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of
the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That
is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon "The Secret Journal of
Abraham Lincoln," and became the first living person to lay eyes on
it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand
biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough,
Seth has reconstructed the "true" life story of our greatest
president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history
behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the
birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to
serial killers, cannibalistic hillbillies, and haunted Japanese
videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror Movie shows how to defeat
every obstacle found in scary films. Readers will discover: How to
Perform an Exorcism What to Do If You Did Something Last Summer How
to Persuade the Skeptical Local Sheriff How to Vanquish a Murderous
Doll How to Survive an Alien Invasion How to Tell If You ve Been
Dead Since the Beginning of the Movie and much, much more. Complete
with useful instructions, insane illustrations, and a list of 100
important films to study, How to Survive a Horror Movie is
essential reading for prom queens, jocks, teenage babysitters, and
anyone employed by a summer camp.
New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with
the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping,
alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes
of vampire Henry Sturges.
THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE
In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching
for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's
shocking death. It will be an expansive journey that will first
send him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the
Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American
century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the
blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry
goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith
ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October
Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK
assassination. Expansive in scope and serious in execution, THE
LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE is sure to appeal to the passionate readers
who made Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a runaway success.
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter, comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark
historical revisionism.
They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what
do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides
the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange
gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. But
leave it to Seth Grahame-Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind
behind "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies" to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and
weave an epic tale.
In Grahame-Smith's telling, the so-called "Three Wise Men" are
infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. After a
daring escape from Herod's prison, they stumble upon the famous
manger and its newborn king. The last thing Balthazar needs is to
be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. But when
Herod's men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no
choice but to help them escape to Egypt.
It's the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the
last magical creatures of the Old Testament; cross paths with
biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist; and
finally deliver them to Egypt. It may just be the greatest story
never told.
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