Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand

“We like to say we’re enhancing them, we’re making them more literal,” Monachello said. “We market them toward horror fans, fans of literature, adults and young adults alike,” said Melissa Monachello, a spokeswoman for Philadelphia-based Quirk Classics, the publishing house behind “Android Karenina” and the Austen remakes. Two other mashers that might be spotted on park, beach or cemetery blankets this summer include “Dawn of the Dreadfuls,” an original story billed as a prequel to “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and pits Austen’s characters against revived corpses, and “Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter” which doesn’t borrow from literature but instead presents the Civil War-era chief executive as an ax-swinging warrior against bloodsuckers. “Jane Slayre,” a vampire killer known as “Jane Eyre” in an earlier literary adventure. “Little Women and Werewolves,” an update on Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” and the times and tribulations of Jo, Beth, Amy and Meg, who must now also worry about disembowelment by supernatural, four-legged creatures.

As the Civil War rages, the girls learn the value of being kind, the merits of patience and grace, and the benefits of knowing a werewolf who can disembowel your teacher.īy turns heartwarming and blood-curdling, this rejuvenated classic will be cherished and treasured by those who love a lesson in virtue almost as much as they enjoy a good old-fashioned dismemberment.- “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters,” which augments Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” themes of logic and emotion in life and love with sea serpents, giant lobsters and man-eating jellyfish. Here are tomboy Jo, quiet Beth, ladylike Amy, and good-hearted Meg, plus lovable neighbor Laurie Laurence, now doomed to prowl the night on all fours, maiming and devouring the locals. In this uncensored version, the March girls learn some biting lessons, transforming from wild girls into little women-just as their friends and neighbors transform into vicious, bloodthirsty werewolves! Now the original text has at last been exhumed.

But Louisa May Alcott’s first draft-before her editor sunk his teeth into it-was even better. A literary landmark-the original, suppressed draft of the classic novel!

Little Women and Werewolves by Porter Grand