zombies and mummies and vampires - oh my!!!

word on the street is that the much beloved fiction category has given birth to a new genre of literature sure to tantalize readers of all ages.

imagine yourself in your local b. dalton, borders or barnes and noble bookstore. now envision the classics you read in high school on one side - emma, pride and prejudice, canterbury tales, hamlet et al. on the other, sci-fi/horror - monsters, zombies, outer space, the unexplained. then somehow, someway, under the cover of night, in some sort of skirmish, those literary classics were tossed together with the zombie/monster/mummy section and from that night of paper passion, sprang this new literary genre. a mash-up. your peanut butter in my chocolate. that sort of thing.

well, what is this new fangled genre of fiction, say you? the titles of said books will probably better explain the genre than any actual explanation we here at long weekend style could assign. so here's a few to whet your whistle:
-pride and prejudice and zombies
-sense and sensibility ans sea monsters
-abe lincoln, vampire hunter
-adventures of huckleberry finn and zombie jim
-android karenina
-robin hood and friar tuck:zombie killers, a canterbury tale
-the undead of oz
-alice in zombieland
-mansfield park and mummies

we could list more but you probably get the picture.

and we just heard that tim burton's next feature film project is . . . wait for it, abe lincoln: vampire hunter. oh, yeah.

who knew our 16th preseident had a night shift job?

oh, a brave new world indeed.