Did Jane Austen have zombies in mind even as she wrote about love and marriage? Seth Grahame-Smith, the author of this spring's most eagerly anticipated novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, who recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly, thinks she did. "[W]hen you take a look at the original book, it's almost as if, subconsciously, Jane Austen is laying out the perfect groundwork for an ultraviolent bone-crushing zombie massacre to take place. For instance, there's a regiment of soldiers camped out near the Bennett household. In the book, they're just there for characters to flirt with. But it's not that big a leap to say, Okay, they're there because the countryside has been overrun with what they call the 'unmentionable menace.'"
The full article is here.--David E
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