You might have heard of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and maybe even enjoyed reading it. You might also like novels featuring zombies and vampires and mummies. So, what would you do if these two of your favorite genres were combined together in a monster mashup?
A monster mashup
Monster mashup, or simply mashup is a relatively new type of literature. As the name suggests, this type of literature is usually a work of fiction which combines a pre-existing literature text, mostly a classic, with another genre, mostly horror. Usually, somewhere between 60 to 85 percent of the original text is retained with new plot twists added to it.
The term mashup originated from the music industry where a new song is created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs.
The Jane Austen link
Jane Austen seems to have been the first classic author whose work became a monster mashup Her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice was mashed up with zombies by author Seth Grahame-Smith in his 2009 novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The book became popular instantly, giving rise to several other such books, creating the monster mashup genre. While Austen has been credited as co-author in this book, not all monster mashup novels credit the original creator as the co-author.
This isn’t the only Austen classic that has been turned into a Monster Mashup. Her other popular classic Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, too was made a parody and released as Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monster by Ben H Winters. He too credited Jane Austen as co-author. Today, one can find many monster mashup books on the shelves, with some, including pride and Prejudice and Zombies being adapted into movies.
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