Der neueste (?) Trend - Klassiker im Horrorgewand

Hallihallo,

der Vampir- und überhaupt Horrorboom treibt immer neue Blüten. Heute stand ich (mal wieder) in der SF-Buchhandlung vor dem Regal mit den Neuerscheinungen und stieß auf nicht weniger als 4 Titel, in denen bekannte britische Romane aus dem 19. Jahrhundert mit Vampiren, Zombies oder sonstigen Monstern versehen wurden.
Das erste habe ich im Sommer gelesen, fand es (im Gegensatz zu Bumbelbee) auch recht amüsant, aber nicht so toll, dass ich mehr der Art lesen möchte.
Im einzelnen waren es:

Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Jane Austen - Stolz und Vorurteil)

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'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 as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she 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.

Jane Austen/Ben H. Winters - Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters (Jane Austen - Verstand und Gefühl)

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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities.
As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon.
Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? It's survival of the fittest and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!

Adam Roberts - I Am Scrooge. A Zombie Story for Christmas (Charles Dickens - Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte)

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Marley was dead. Again. The legendary Ebenezeer Scrooge sits in his house counting money. The boards that he has nailed up over the doors and the windows shudder and shake under the blows from the endless zombie hordes that crowd the streets hungering for his flesh and his miserly braaaaiiiiiinns! Just how did the happiest day of the year slip into a welter of blood, innards and shambling, ravenous undead on the snowy streets of old London town? Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future be able to stop the world from drowning under a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde? Was Tiny Tim's illness something infinitely more sinister than mere rickets and consumption? Can Scrooge be persuaded to go back to his evil ways, travel back to Christmas past and destroy the brain stem of the tiny, irritatingly cheery Patient Zero? It's the Dickensian Zombie Apocalypse - God Bless us, one and all!

Amanda Grange - Mr Darcy, Vampyre (nochmal Jane Austens Stolz und Vorurteil)

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Elizabeth Darcy is the happiest woman alive when she steps into the carriage that is to take her on her wedding tour - until she sees the look of torment on Mr Darcy's face and discovers that he has a deep, dark secret that nearly destroys their love, their marriage and even her very life. Darcy and the rest of his family are vampires that cannot be outside during sunrise or sunset. Lady Catherine is at the source, having turned Georgiana into an undying friend for her vampiric daughter, Anne, and then Darcy as the perfect mate for Anne. Now Lizzy and Darcy must travel across the Continent to the Pyrenees to find a way to break the curse. But Lady Catherine won't give up her undead without a fight.

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Habt ihr eines (oder mehrere) der Bücher gelesen? Kennt ihr ähnliche Titel? Wenn nicht - würdet ihr sie lesen wollen? Gibt es sowas auch auf Deutsch?

Ich habe mir die Verbindung Austen-Vampir so zusammengereimt, zumindest was "Mr. Darcy, Vampyre" angeht:
Viele Leserinnen finden Mr Darcy wahnsinnig attraktiv und männliche Vampire sind ja heutzutage die unglaublichsten Sexbomben. (Ich kann beides nicht so recht nachvollziehen, aber...) Nun ja, wenn man nun beides miteinander verbindet, erreicht man einen neuen Höhepunkt männlicher Attraktivität, hat sich wohl jemand gedacht; also wird Mr Darcy selbst zum Vampir gemacht, in der Hoffnung, dass Jung-Eddie gegen diesen Gentleman bis in die FingEckzahnspitzen verblasst.

Was allerdings nicht erklärt, wieso Jane Austen selbst zur Vampirin wird.

Der Trend treibt neue Blüten: Jetzt werden auch historische Persönlichkeiten zu Monsterbekämpfern.

Da wäre einmal Queen Elizabeth I:
A. E. Moorat - Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter

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There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise.
London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there’s the small matter of the undead to take care of first. Demons stalk the crown, and political ambitions have unleashed ravening hordes of zombies even within the nobility itself.
But rather than dreams of demon hunting, Queen Victoria’s thoughts are occupied by Prince Albert. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere? With lashings of glistening entrails, decapitations, zombies, and foul demons, this masterly new portrait will give a fresh understanding of a remarkable woman, a legendary monarch, and quite possibly the best demon hunter the world has ever seen.

In Amiland kämpft Abraham Lincoln gegen die Beißerchen:
Seth Grahame-Smith - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

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It's 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 axe, 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 America's 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 the nation.

Heinrich der Achte hingegen kämpft nicht gegen die Monster sondern ist selbst eines:
A. E. Moorat - Henry VIII: Wolfman

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HENRY VIII: WOLFMAN DIVORCED. BEHEADED. DIED. MAULED. SAVAGED. SURVIVED? Henry VIII was the best and bloodiest King ever to have sat on the throne of England. This fast-paced, exciting, gory, inventive and just plain gross retelling of his reign will bring to light the real man behind the myth. When it came to his size, Henry VIII was known for being larger-than-life, with a fearsome temper and bloodthirsty reputation to match; more beast than human, some might say...Be dragged kicking and screaming back 500 years into Tudor England...

Ja, mach das mal, Chil, und berichte uns davon. Damit du auch ordentlich Auswahl hast, stelle ich noch ein paar weitere Bücher vor.

Dieser Tage erscheint in deutscher Übersetzung:
Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith - Stolz und Vorurteil und Zombies

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Jane Austen dreht sich im Grabe um ...
Der gut aussehende Mr. Darcy und ihre eigenen widersprüchlichen Gefühle sind diesmal nur die geringsten Probleme, mit denen sich Elizabeth Bennet herumschlagen muss. Denn aus London ergießt sich eine Horde von Untoten über das Land, und Lizzie sieht sich plötzlich vor eine Entscheidung gestellt: entweder ein Leben zusammen mit Mr. Darcy oder Tod den Zombies. Oder doch beides?

Von diesem ersten, und laut Stockholmer SF-Buchhandlung bestem Roman dieser Art erschien letztes Jahr eine erweiterte Deluxe-Ausgabe mit dem wunderbaren Hinweis auf dem Buchrücken

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now with 30 % more zombies

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Er wurde letztens auch von Tony Lee & Cliff Richards zu einer Graphic Novel umgearbeitet:

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Und im März erschien ein Prequel dazu, in dem erläutert wird, wie die Bennet-Schwestern zu solch erfolgreichen Zombiekillern wurden:
Steve Hockensmith - Dawn of the Dreadfuls

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With more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture.
In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century England. We watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naïve young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. We laugh as she begins her first clumsy training with nunchucks and katana swords and cry when her first blush with romance goes tragically awry. Written by acclaimed novelist (and Edgar Award nominee) Steve Hockensmith, Dawn of the Dreadfuls invites Austen fans to step back into Regency England, Land of the Undead!

Aber genug von Jane Austen; eine weitere Jane kämpft gleich an mehreren Fronten, nämlich gegen Vampire, Zombies und Werwölfe:
Charlotte Brontë/Sherri Browning Erwin - Jane Slayre

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“ READER, I BURIED HIM . ”
A timeless tale of love, devotion . . . and the undead.
Jane Slayre, our plucky demon-slaying heroine, a courageous orphan who spurns the detestable vampyre kin who raised her, sets out on the advice of her ghostly uncle to hone her skills as the fearless slayer she’s meant to be. When she takes a job as a governess at a country estate, she falls head-over-heels for her new master, Mr. Rochester, only to discover he’s hiding a violent werewolf in the attic—in the form of his first wife. Can a menagerie of bloodthirsty, flesh-eating, savage creatures-of-the-night keep a swashbuckling nineteenth-century lady from the gentleman she intends to marry? Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Brontë’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.

"Nur" mit Werwölfen legen sich vier Schwestern auf der anderen Seite des Ozeans an:
Louisa May Alcott/Porter Grand - Little Women and Werewolves

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A literary landmark—the original, suppressed draft of the classic novel!
Little Women is a timeless classic. But Louisa May Alcott’s first draft—before her editor sunk his teeth into it—was even better. Now the original text has at last been exhumed. In this uncensored version, the March girls learn some biting lessons, transforming from wild girls into little women—just as their friends and neighbors transform into vicious, bloodthirsty werewolves!
Here are tomboy Jo, quiet Beth, ladylike Amy, and good-hearted Meg, plus lovable neighbor Laurie Laurence, now doomed to prowl the night on all fours, maiming and devouring the locals. As the Civil War rages, the girls learn the value of being kind, the merits of patience and grace, and the benefits of knowing a werewolf who can disembowel your teacher.
By turns heartwarming and blood-curdling, this rejuvenated classic will be cherished and treasured by those who love a lesson in virtue almost as much as they enjoy a good old-fashioned dismemberment.
Includes the original letter from Alcott’s editor, telling her not to even think about it!

Winnetou + Werwölfe! Aber immerhin scheint er selbst keiner zu sein. Wenigstens etwas. Aber vielleicht taucht Old Shatterhand ja als Vampir auf. Ich bin ja beinahe versucht, mir das Buch zu bestellen.

Heidis Klappentext klingt aber auch nicht schlecht :

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Heidi, Deine Welt sind ... die Zombies

Vorbei die Zeiten, in denen dunkle Tannen und grüne Wiesen im Sonnenschein die heile Welt von Heidi waren! Nun verbreitet sich ein Virus in der Idylle der schönen Alpenwelt. Menschen werden zu Zombies, die besonders gern in den abgeschiedenen Bergdörfern ihr Unwesen treiben. Und so muss Heidi erfahren, dass ihre Mutter Adelheid gar nicht tot ist, sondern als Vampir auf nächtliche Streifzüge geht! Beherzt greift Heidi zum Pflock und befreit mit Hilfe des Großvaters Almöhi die Untote von der Unsterblichkeit. Doch es gibt jemanden, dem das gar nicht gefällt: Marus, dem Blutsauger. Er war es, der sich Adelheid einst mit einem Biss gesichert hat und den es nun nach Rache dürstet für seinen Verlust. Und wenn er die Mutter schon nicht bekommen kann, dann doch vielleicht das Kind ...

Es nimmt einfach kein Ende . Kürzlich kämpften die "Little Women" (Betty und ihre Schwestern) noch gegen Werwölfe, jetzt sind sie zu Vampiren mutiert:
Louisa May Alcott/Lynn Messina - Little Vampire Women

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