![]() ![]() Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel It may just be the greatest story never told. It’s the beginning of an adventure that will see them fight the last magical creatures of the Old Testament cross paths with biblical figures like Pontius Pilate and John the Baptist and finally deliver them to Egypt. But when Herod’s men begin to slaughter the first born in Judea, he has no choice but to help them escape to Egypt. The last thing Balthazar needs is to be slowed down by young Joseph, Mary and their infant. After a daring escape from Herod’s prison, they stumble upon the famous manger and its newborn king. In Grahame Smith’s telling, the so called ‘Three Wise Men’ are infamous thieves, led by the dark, murderous Balthazar. But leave it to Seth Grahame Smith, the brilliant and twisted mind behind Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to take a little mystery, bend a little history, and weave an epic tale. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing strange gifts? The Bible has little to say about this enigmatic trio. They’re an iconic part of history’s most celebrated birth. aspxįrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Unholy Night, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. NEW! Watch Honest Abe in action here: hachettebookgroup. ![]() Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near death of our nation. That is, until Seth Grahame Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. ‘ Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. And this mastery shall have but one purpose… I shall become a master of mind and body. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ‘henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. She’s been stricken with something the old timers call ‘Milk Sickness.”My baby boy… Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one room cabin, where a nine year old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you d actually want to read. ![]() What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood soaked battlefield. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty hero*ine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all new scenes of bone crunching zombie mayhem. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. ![]()
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