Literary Mashups
A friend of mine reportedly owns Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which I have heard about and summarily dismissed as it sounded corny and a bit cheesy. Upon discussing it tonight I may have changed my mind. The idea of a victorian gentleman having to fend of zombies is immanently interesting to me. There is a great juxtaposition of victorian mores and the usual zombie tropes. There has got to be some really fun conflict inherent in that, not to mention all manner of ending possibilities (does the hero give in and abandon polite society never to return to it, or does he succumb to the horde and die a martyr to his ethics?).
And then a second and more light-hearted possibility sprang to mind: a steampunk zombie hunter. Battling zombies with the lasted mechanical inventions that only the steampunk genre can provide could make for a not-so-horror but quite action oriented tale. Sort of a steampunk version of Army of Darkness and how could that not be cool?
Here’s another thought: why not use this as a basis for an RPG? I would love to play either a victorian gentleman or a steampunk lad faced with zombies. Any takers?