Comic books in 'Quirk Classics'

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1st printing. By Franz Kafka and Cook Coleridge. Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to support his parents and sister. His life goes strangely awry when he wakes up late for work and discovers that, inexplicably, he is now a man-sized baby kitten. His family freaks out: Yes, their son is OMG sooo cute, but what good is cute when there are bills to pay? And how can Gregor be so selfish as to devote all his attention to a scrap of ribbon? As his new feline identity threatens to eat away at his personality, Gregor desperately tries to survive this bizarre, bewhiskered ordeal in The Meowmorphosis, a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Kafka's classic nightmare tale. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 206 pages, Text Only. Cover price $12.95.

Deluxe Heirloom Edition - 1st printing. Written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Now with 30% MORE ZOMBIES! "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (PPZ), the knockout hit of 2009! This Deluxe Heirloom Edition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features additional material and pages of all-new (and entirely gratuitous) ultra-violent zombie mayhem, a special preface from author Seth Grahame-Smith in which he describes the writing of PPZ, and 15 all-new, full-color oil painting illustrations depicting PPZ's most memorable moments, all gathered in a fancy, four-color, hardcover package. Hardcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 340 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and 15 full color paintings). Cover price $24.95.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Book 1 - 1st printing. Written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The hit of the 2009 New York Comic Con features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action! A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead have risen! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners, with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers...and even more violent sparring as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead! This insanely funny expanded edition comes complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice). Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $12.95.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Book 1 - 2nd and later printings. Written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. The hit of the 2009 New York Comic Con features the original text of Jane Austen's beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action! A mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead have risen! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners, with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers...and even more violent sparring as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead! This insanely funny expanded edition comes complete with 20 illustrations in the style of C. E. Brock (the original illustrator of Pride and Prejudice). Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $12.95.

1st printing. Written by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters. From the publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! We're elevating the genre of "mash-up literature" to awesome new heights with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, an expanded edition of the beloved regency romance - with all-new scenes of monster mayhem and high seas adventure! Evicted from their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are desperate to find attractive gentlemen suitors - and even more desperate to defend their new coastal cottage from giant squid, man-eating clams, great white sharks, and other monsters of the deep. Armed with nets, harpoon guns, and plenty of dry wit, they'll need to conquer unscrupulous cads, meddling matriarchs, and a giant Kraken in their quest for true love. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 344 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $12.95.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls - 1st printing. Written by Jane Austen and Steven Hockensmith. Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls - a thrilling prequel set three years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. This comic-horror novel is an all-new work of fiction from acclaimed novelist Steve Hockensmith. The Bennet sisters enjoy a peaceful life in the English countryside, until a funeral at the local parish goes horribly awry. As bodies pile up, Elizabeth Bennet evolves from a naïve young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $12.95.

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1st printing. By Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina, an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel! As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: The tragic adulterous love affair of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the more hopeful marriage of Nikolai Levin and Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya. These characters live in a steampunk-inspired world of robitic butlers, clumsy automatons, and rudimentary mechanical devices. But when these copper-plated machines begin to revolt against their human masters, our characters must fight back using state-of-the-art 19th century technology and a sleek new model of ultra-human cyborgs like nothing the world has ever seen! Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 544 pages, Text Only. Cover price $12.95.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Book 3 - 1st printing. Written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and its prequel, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, were both New York Times best sellers, with a combined 1.3 million copies in print. Now the PPZ trilogy comes to a thrilling conclusion with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After. The story opens with our newly married protagonists, Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, defending their village from an army of flesh-eating "unmentionables." But the honeymoon has barely begun when poor Mr. Darcy is nipped by a rampaging dreadful. Elizabeth knows the proper course of action is to promptly behead her husband (and then burn the corpse, just to be safe). But when she learns of a miracle antidote under development in London, she realizes there may be one last chance to save her true love?and for everyone to live happily ever after. Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 288 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $12.95.