Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Back on the App Store… and It’s Hungry

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is Back on the App Store… and It’s Hungry

I was working in a now-defunct bookstore when Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was released on an unsuspecting public. I don’t have precise figures but I can say with certainty that the book sold like mad. It was a combination of a small publisher doing a somewhat limited run, and a level of consumer interest that not many predicted. People love Victorian zombies, apparently. Who knew?

A year after the novel’s release, a side-scrolling game based on the twisted tale made its way on to the App Store. But Quirk Books isn’t done with the iOS platform yet. Oh no. Not by a long shot. Now the literary “classic” has been given new life (*rimshot*) in the form of an illustrated, interactive eBook.

This isn’t any regular old eBook, mind. It’s full of interactive (and incredibly gory) illustrations and features an original score and sound effects. Sounds awesome, yes? Well there’s more. Not only can users enjoy all manner of zombie-centric animated illustrations as they read this unexpectedly popular story, they can also read the entire original Austin text by flipping their device upside-down. Even more interesting (and excessive), tilting the device on its side will simultaneously display both the interactive zombie-infested re-imagining and the literary classic at the same time.

Anyone who might have held off on reading this most interesting interpretation, but still wants to, should definitely have a look-see at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Interactive eBook. It’s absolutely stuffed with content and at $4.99 (for a limited time) it’s currently almost half of the physical tome’s price.