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With the release of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies just days away, we’re already inundated with suggestions for sequels. Most ideas follow the formula pioneered by P&P&Z: (1) Take a literary classic you were supposed to read in high school; (2) Add an inappropriate element (pirates, monkeys, cannibalism); (3) Slap a great title on the cover.

Of course, to ensure that Quirk does not run afoul of copyright laws, the literary classic has to be a book that was published in the United States before 1923. So Charles Dickens is fair game, but William Faulkner is not. This restriction makes many of these suggestions unpublishable, but the titles are so great we had to share them:

A Farewell to Arms and Legs
The Corpse of Monte Cristo
As I Lay Bleeding
Android Karenina
Portrait of a Werewolf as a Young Man
O Pioneers! And O My God, Zombies!
Maggie: A Ghoul of the Streets
The Brothers Karazombie
Uncle Tom’s Coffin
I Know Why the Caged Zombie Sings
Tender is the Night of the Living Dead
Lady Chatterley’s Braaaaaains
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Zombie Margaret

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47 Responses to ““A Farewell to Arms and Legs” — and Other Quirk Classics”

  1. Lyv Says:

    The Zombies on the Floss, George Eliot

    The History of Tom Jones, A Zombie, Henry Feilding

  2. Fred Says:

    “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; Zombie Slayer”
    “Romeo Eats Juliette”
    “The Conquest Of Zombie Infested Gaul”
    “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Zombie”
    “Le Morte et Orior D’Arthur”
    “Sir Gawain and the Rotting Green Knight”
    “The Importance of Being Earnestly Devoted to Killing the Undead”
    “The Tibetan Book of the Not Entirely Dead”
    “Breakfast of Tiffany’s”
    “People Fall Apart”
    “Sarah; Plain and Tall and Hungry for Brains”
    “Where the Red Fiend Grows”
    “A Corpse Groans in Brooklyn”
    “We the Unliving”

  3. Blanca Says:

    “Slaughtered and Spitted Animal Farm of Choice Meats”

  4. Zombie Classics by Quirk Books - PSFK.com Says:

    [...] likely that only stories published in the United States before 1923 will qualify. The publisher, Quirk Books, has mentioned some of their favorite fan-suggested titles on their website (publishing rights [...]

  5. Nick Zbu Says:

    If you will take it, I have a great idea for Middlemarch of the Damned.

  6. Ken Says:

    What’s Eating Gilbert Grape! You don’t even have to change the title

  7. Kristy Says:

    Alice’s Adventures in Zombieland–Lewis Carrol
    Zombie Island–Robert Lewis Stephenson
    Call of the Zombie–Jack London ‘BBBBRRRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSS’

  8. Evangeline Says:

    Some Shakespeare suggestions:
    A Midsummer Night’s Massacre
    The Merchant of Death
    The Merry Brides of Frankenstein
    Titus Andronicus

  9. Ron Ambrose Says:

    Hey! Why limit yourself to mostly zombies, ghouls and androids when you can use a lot more. Try vampires, werewolves mermaids, creatures from Geek lengend whatever. I have a copy of Pride, Prejudice and Zombies and love the book. Please have some fun with this.

  10. Madame Says:

    Actually, you might want to check a little closer into copyright laws. If this were a painting, it would likely fall under the heading of parody, which does not require permissions.

  11. Missy Says:

    Abducted–Robert Lewis Stevenson (Kidnapped)
    The Body Parts They Carried –Tim O’Brien
    A Tale of Two Cemetaries–Charles Dickens
    The Pickwick Obituaries–Charles Dickens
    Body Snatcher in the Rye–J.D. Salinger
    Haroun and the Sea of Bodies–Salman Rushdie
    Brains for Algernon–Daneil Keyes
    To Reanimate a Mockingbird-Harper Lee
    A Day No Pigs Would Come Back to Life–Robert Peck

  12. Will Says:

    Charlie and the Chocolate Mortuary - Roald Dahl
    Cannibals of Narnia - CS Lewis
    Connecticut Zombie in King Arthur’s Coart - Twain
    Doctor Zhombago - Pasternak
    Dublooners (Dubliners) - James Joyce
    Our Mutual Undead - Dickens
    Our Crypt - Thornton Wilder
    Occurance at Owl Crypt - Ambrose Bierse
    Crypt of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge
    Remains of the Undead - Ishiguro
    Dead also rising - Hemmingway
    Sense and Edibility - Austen (a cannibal twist)

  13. karen Says:

    Ok - lets try non zombies
    Moby Dick - the Loch Ness Monster
    Frankenstein’s monster at Wuthering heights
    Aliens attack Mansfield Park
    The Secret Coven (Mary Lennox discovers a walled up temple to Satan - human sacrifices heal Colin) ;)
    Little Vampires
    The princess and the goblin (oh wait - that’s real)
    Rebecca of Sunnydeath Farm
    Betsy, Tacy and Mr. Hyde.
    Five Children and the Blob
    Far from the maddening sun
    Hans Brinker’s silver skates of death

    I could go on. :)
    BTW-Pride and Prejudice is my favorite novel - but this book is so funny (so far).
    Any other books shouldn’t try to be too obviously funny - it would ruin the jokes.

  14. Kwill81 Says:

    Jane Eyre and Werewolves, It makes a lot of sense when you think about it.

    Great Expectations of Vampires.

  15. Calvin Says:

    Of Mice and Zombies

  16. Peach Says:

    Continuing with the Jane Austen theme: Emma The Demon Hunter; The Serial Killer of Northanger Abbey; Sense and Sensibility and Cannibals; Persuasions and Pirates; Withering Heights (about a flesh eating virus). I just hope you release something soon. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was HILARIOUS!

  17. David D Says:

    Le Unmorte D’Arthur
    Arabian Nights of the Living Dead
    Heart of Zombies
    Romeo and Zombiet
    Hamlet the Undead Prince
    The Taming of the Zombie
    Dead Quixote - Zombie of La Mancha
    Jude the Undead
    Winnie the Zombie
    A Passage To Hell
    Raiser’s Edge
    Just So Zombie Tales
    Crime and Dismemberment
    Undead Tom’s Cabin
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Zombie
    The Undead Family Robinson

    This is a really fun execution (ha!) of the genre, a legitimate modernization and parody, and I hope that the copyright laws do not get in the way of some further good laughs. I’ve certainly never enjoyed Jane Austen more!!

  18. Excited! Says:

    My Cousin Dinner
    Jane Eyre (and the Undead in the Attic) 1984
    A Clockwork Zombie -> Orange
    The Zombie’s Guide to the Galaxy -> Hitchhiker’s
    Zombie’s Game -> Ender’s
    The Zombie’s Tale -> Handmaid’s
    2001: An Undead Odyssey -> Space

    Or some personal favorites:

    Harry Potter and the Zombie’s Rocks, and the Chamber of Zombies, and the Prisoner of Zombiland, and the Goblet of the Undead, and the Order of the Zombie, and the Half-Blood Zombie, and the Undead Hallows.

    As far as strictly high school material, we’re limited mostly to:

    As I Die Reading
    A Lesson Before Undying
    The Un-Hobbit
    The Great Zombie
    The Lord of the Flies and Zombies
    Zombie Farm
    To Kill A Zombie
    The Zombie in the Rye
    The Tragedy of Othello, the Zombie of Venice

    (”Haply for I am dead, And have not those soft parts of conversation, That fleshy mortals have; for I am declined Into decay…O curse of un-death, That we can call our wives ours And not their brains!”)

    This is quite fun, actually. :)

  19. gramercyk35 Says:

    The amazing adventures of cadaver and clay

  20. doublenegative Says:

    Where the Red Fern Eats People
    Arms and the Mandible
    Much Ado About Nosferatu
    Finnegan’s Wakening: The Return
    The Old Man and the Sea and Some Robots
    Undeath in Venice
    In Search of Lost Corpses
    To the Lighthouse Which is Guarded By Vampires

  21. intricacy Says:

    Id love for future books to continue on with Jane Austen novels.. i actually read pride and prejudice and it was simply hysterical reading this mutation of it~ theres no way im going to miss the next novel quirk classics publishes…and ill probably read the original before the altered

  22. Shannan Says:

    Atlas Shrugged and His Head Fell Off
    Brideshead Reanimated
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Undead
    A Passage to Transylvania
    The Dismember of the Wedding
    A Moveable Feast of Braaains

  23. Desiree' Espinosa Says:

    what about ‘Northanger Abbery and Vampires’?? its a prime story for bloodsuckers. or ‘The Old Man and the Banshee’?

  24. Laura Says:

    How’s about Beowerewulf? I think it’d work out beautifully. :D I’ll even write it for you. :D

  25. Kylie Says:

    A Tale of Two Deaths ( A Tale of Two Cities)
    The Prince and the Killer (The Prince and the Pauper)
    Tom Sawwer ( Like a Tom SAWwer massacre)
    The Lives Huckleberry Finnished ( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
    The Lord of the Vampires (The Lord of the Flies)
    The Bloody Letter (The Scarlet Letter)
    Sonnets of Death (Sonnets)
    To Kill Your Stalker (To Kill a Mockingbird)

  26. Jaimee Says:

    well, they’re already going to make another Jane Austen work: it’s Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.

    and perhaps: The Old Zombie and the Sea

  27. Amanda Says:

    Even though the next book is out i got this title…

    Alices Adventure in Zombieland and
    Trough the Looking Dead

  28. Kate Says:

    I really would love to see a version of The Importance of Being Ernest. I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and didn’t know I could laugh my ass off and be equally grossed out at the same time. I am very much so looking forward to Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I would also like to say that I wish we could see a rewrite of The Great Gatsby and/or Catcher in the Rye. Those would be fabulous. If quirk classics could ever make Ernest Hemingway or Charles Dickens a page turner I would me in awe. Unfortunately I’m not very creative with clever alternative titles.

  29. Judy Says:

    How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harpie Lee

  30. Ben Monroe Says:

    Gone With the Wendigo
    The Three Monsterteers
    Withering Heights

  31. Lynda Says:

    Smothering Heights

    I said it on Twitter. I figured I would put it here.

  32. Matt Says:

    I am going for other Jane Austen Novels, so here we go:

    Emma the Werewolf (Emma)

    Mansfield Park with Cannibals (Mansfield Park)

    Vampire Abby (Northanger Abby)

    Persuasion and Possesion (Persuasion)

  33. Mike Fracchia Says:

    The Three Muskateers of the Apocalypse. A swash-buckling tale of friendship and the end of days.

  34. Mike Fracchia Says:

    The Jungle Book of The Dead. A lost man cub learns of the afterlife from his jungle friends.

  35. FarmWife Says:

    Wuthering Heights & Werewolves, Little Women & the Men from Mars, Undeath Be Not Proud, Tess of the Bermuda Triangle, The Hobbitten, Jane Eyre - The story of a telekentic governess, Are You There God, It’s Me, Frakenstein’s Monster….or how about tossing something unexpected into existing horror books….Dracula at Watership Downs….Dr. Jekel, Mr. Hyde, and Peter Pan….

  36. Lance Boehme Says:

    Thanks for this. Do you know of any other hints that are related to this at all?

  37. Julie Rak Says:

    The Edible Woman — Margaret Atwood (why change it)

  38. Paul Pruitt Says:

    All the President’s Mentalists
    All the King’s Mentalists

  39. Paul Pruitt Says:

    Oliver Twisted (Get’s Committed)
    Tale of Two Kitty’s (A Partially True Story of the Notorious Lion Attacks During the French Revolution)
    Great Expectations (and Their Gruesome Fulfillment)
    David Goldfield (How One Man with an Awful Midas Like Gift Stripped Mined Most of England’s Countryside)

  40. Glen Says:

    Peter Pain
    Grated Expectations
    Of Malice and Men
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Fiend
    The Adventures of Tom Buzzsaw-er
    Twenty Thousand Leaks uder the Sea
    Zombie Dick (Moby Dick… don’t be dirty)
    The Wizard of Ooze
    Robinson Crucified

  41. jen Says:

    Don Juan de Cannibal
    Mansonfield Park

  42. Alexander Says:

    Mansfield Jurassic Park - Jane Austen
    Moby Trek (Melville in Space!)
    Anna Kareninja - Leo Tolstoy
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Ed - Robert Lewis Stevenson
    The Superpower and the Glory - Graham Greene
    Malice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    The Importance of Being Elvish - Oscar Wilde
    The Mermaids - Jean Genet
    Robotson Crusoe - Robert Lewis Stevenson
    Lorna Dune (Richard Blackmore meets Frank Herbert)
    In Search of Lost Time Machine - Marcel Proust
    Thus Ate Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
    Oliver Twisted (serial killer) - Charles Dickens
    Maul Flanders - Daniel Defoe
    The Tropic of Caprica - Henry Miller
    Mutants on the Bounty - Nordoff & Hall
    Titus Androidicus - William Shakespeare
    The Adventures of Hypno-berry Finn - Mark Twain
    Walden’s Pod - Henry David Thoreau
    Star Wars and Peace - Tolstoy meets Lucas
    The Oddity - Homer
    The Fountainundead - Ayn Rand
    To Be Killed By a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    Nostro(da)mo - Joseph Conrad
    The Sound and the Furies - William Falkner
    Twenty Thousand Lesions Under the Sea - H.G. Wells
    The Summer Before the Eternal Darkness - Doris Lessing
    Flower for Aliens - Daniel Keyes
    A Severed Piece - John Knowles
    A Necronomiconnecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Mark Twain
    Tess of D’Ubervillains - Thomas Hardy
    Heddahunter Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
    The Little Prince (think Antoine de Saint-Exupery meets Machiavelli)
    Gilgamash
    The Naked and the Undead - Norman Mailer
    Death and Ressurection of a Salesman
    Zorba the Geek - Nikos Kazantzakis
    Golem’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
    Love in the Time of Flesh-Eating Bacteria - Gabriele Garcia Marquez
    Lord of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - William Golding
    Madam Basilisk - Gustave Flaubert
    A Senti-mentalism Education - Gustave Flaubert
    Medusa - Euripides
    Blindnessie - Jose Saramago
    Memoirs of Hamadryad - Marguerite Yourcena
    Creature from the Red and the Black Lagoon - Stendhal
    Deathcameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
    Come Back, Little Shiva - William Inge
    The Adventures of Sherlock Hobgoblin - Arthur Conan Doyle
    Breakfast of Tiffany - Truman Capote
    The Day of the Tribbles - John Wyndham
    A Woman Killed With Kindness and blunt objects - Thomas Heywood
    Dragon Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
    On the Roc - Jack Keroac
    The Talented Mr. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not - Patricia Highsmith
    otHELLo - William Shakespeare
    The Life of an Amorphous Man - Ihara Saikaku
    Uncle Vampya - Anton Chekhov
    Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser meets Stephen King)
    Inducer of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahir
    Count Dracula of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    Swiss Family Robotson - Johann Wyss
    Silas Monster - George Eliot
    Pestilence and Melisande - Maurice Maeterlinck
    Lord of the Ringworld (Tolkien meets Niven)
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Werewolf? - Edward Albee
    The Maiming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
    Robin Hook (archers and pirates)
    The Old Man and the Sea Serpent - Ernest Hemingway
    The Catgirl in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
    Orcmond - Charles Brockden Brown
    The Adventures of Tom Slayer - Mark Twain
    Jane Pyre - Charlotte Bronte (firestarter!)
    Are You There, Godzilla? It’s Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
    The Scarlet Bloodletter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The Way of the Underworld - William Congreve
    Druid the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    A Tale of Two Cyborgs - Charles Dickens
    The Three Penny Phantom of the Opera - Bertolt Brecht
    The Way of All Flesh-eaters - George Bernard Shaw
    The Corpse Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
    Of Mice and Wolfmen - John Steinbeck
    The Bonfire of the Vampires - Tom Wolfe
    Over the Rainbow (D.H. Lawrnece meets L.F. Baum)
    A Passage to Indiana Jones - E.M. Forster
    Great Exsanguinations - Charles Dickens
    The Hunchback of Never-Never Land (Hugo meets Barrie)
    Mutopia - Thomas Moore
    Songs of Life and Hope and Syrens - Ruben Dario
    Ethan Frankenstein - Edith Wharto
    Hell and Farewell - George Moore
    The Sea Werewolf - Jack London
    The Longest Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Wells meets Forester)
    The Fallen - Albert Camus
    The Master Robot Builder - Henrik Ibsen
    The Once and Future Swamp-Thing - T.H. White
    The Tower of Baba Yaga - Elias Canetti
    Martian Letters - Montesqueu
    The Merchant of Venus - William Shakespeare
    Robot Roy - Walter Scott
    Ward Number Six Six Six - Anton Chekhov
    Pirate Lives - Noel Coward
    Little Women and Giant Men - Louis May Alcott
    Rashopokemon - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    Sons and Lovecraft - D. H. Lawrence
    The Ill-iad - Homer (Trojan War with biological warfare?)
    The Adventures of Teleportmachus - Francois de Salignac
    Arabian Nightmares - Robert Lewis Stevenson
    David Cockatrice - Charles Dickens
    The Murdered Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
    The House of the Seven Gargoyles - Nathaniel Hawthorne
    The C’Thulhuberry Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Torture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
    Death Rides Again - Max Brand
    The Second (cloned) Mrs. Tanquerary - Arthur Pinero
    Cyrano de Brainiac (vs Superman) - Edmond Rostand
    Telltale Heart of Darkness (think Conrad meets Poe)
    Slayerella (Cinderella vs Vampires)

  43. Simone Says:

    THE BROTHERS GRIMM REAPER

  44. Simone Says:

    ALICE IN MURDERLAND (alice goes to wonderland but instead of teaparties and croquet every where there are serial killers and murders)

  45. Dan Says:

    Of Mice and Men and Mummies
    Wuthering Heights and Harpies
    Oliver Twist and Trolls
    Don Quixote the Vampire
    The Three Musketeers and Mutants
    The Great Gatsby and Giant Insects
    The Scarlet Letter Vampires
    David Copperfield and the Living Dead.
    Please keep cranking these out, I can’t get enough of this genre!

  46. Chilli Says:

    The Cherry Orchard Cemetary: Anton Chekov
    A Tale of Two Corpses: Charles Dickens
    The Unmentionable Illyad: Homer
    The Undead Odessy: Homer
    Wuthering Depths: Emily Bronte
    All Quiet On The Coroner’s Front: Erich Maria Remarque
    War & Pieces: Leo Tolstoy
    The Book Of Five Burials: Myamoto Musashi
    On Autopsy: Von Clauswitz
    The Art Of Cannibalism: Sun Tsu
    The Little Red-splattered Book: Mao Zhedong
    Das Necrosis: Karl Marx

  47. Chilli Says:

    1980-gore: George Orwell
    Animal Abbatoir: George Orwell
    Sons & Revenants: DH Lawrence
    Moon Affected: Aleister Crowley
    The Evisceration of Uncle Paul: Algernon Blackwood
    The Wanderings of the Dead Oisin: W.B. Yeats
    The Corpses of the Ancients: Francis Bacon
    The Adventure of the Decomposing Man: Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Nocturnal Wanderings of the Deceased Moll Flanders: Daniel Defoe
    Memoirs of a Cadaver: Daniel Defoe
    The Old Mortuary Parlour: Dickens
    The Posthumous Members of the Pickwick Club: Dickens

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