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Literary Monster Mashup
Seth Grahame-Smith started it. He wrote a monster mash-up of Jane Austen and his own imagination called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” It sold a million copies and set off an avalanche: “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” … “Emma and the Werewolves” … “The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies” … “Alice in Zombieland” … “Jane Bites Back.” Now Grahame-Smith is back with his follow-up — “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Literature and zombies. History and vampires. Selling like hotcakes. What’s going on?
This hour, On Point: the monster mash-up craze.