INTERVENTION!!

Okay, so this whole "classic literature + monster" craze started innocently enough...

... okay, ya... zombies... how topical, great... Then we got:



... okaaaayyy?? Sense and Sensibility, also a fan favorite... but sea monsters? Not as topical, not as fun as zombies... but I get it... alliteration... I get it...



Really? This now? Really?? What's next?



COME OOONNNN!! Little Women and Werewolves? Is this for real? You know what? I don't care either way...

INTERVENTION!!!

This whole trend has to stop! If not to preserve the honor and respect that these classic authors deserve, then because the idea is much too simple to warrant any further attention! I mean, seriously! A mash up of classic literature and a monster? Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!
Check out the list of titles that Johanna Meyers, Stefania Rudd, Cayenne Sullivan and I (WRITERS OF BETTER OFF WED, NOW PLAYING AT DONNY'S SKYBOX THEATRE) brainstormed earlier today via one of our many long e-mail chains:

Robot & Juliet

The Great Godzilla-by

Tess of the D'urbevilles and the Boogey Man

Of Mice and Swampthings

Uncle Tom's Cabin of Terror

Jane Eyre and the Chupacabra

Wuthering Heights and The Lock Ness Monster

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Vampires

Moby Dick and the Jersey Devil

Dante's Inferno and Unicorns

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Bloody Mary

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Personal Demons

Call of the Wild and the Abominable Snowman

Madame Bovary and Mothra

... look, we can do it too! Kind of takes away any and all street cred that Seth Grahame-Smith and Ben H. Winters may bring to the table, right? That... plus the fact that they were totally at C2E2 last weekend signing autographs next to the Ghost Hunters. pffft.