Clarkesworld asks the contributors to
The Weird: a Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories about 'the weird' and one of them says,
William Browning Spenser: [...] We have pop fictions like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a novel so bereft of genuine imagination that its title is merely a statement of its high concept. This has inspired other pastiches (i.e., thefts) and why hasn't someone transformed Emily Bronte's Heathcliff into a vampire or a werewolf? Yes, it's only a matter of time. (Jeremy L.C. Jones)
But it's happened already! See
Wuthering Bites by Sarah Gray and
Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King to name but two.
The info about what's been put together for
Emily's bicentenary by the Brontë Society has also been published by
The Yorkshire Post and
BBC News. Not everyone is liking these highlights as we saw when we posted the news on our Facebook page and see for instance
Nick Holland's post. Let us state here that this was only a press release detailing what people have put a lot of effort into organising and with the best for the Brontës in mind. For the Brontë legacy to continue, it's the new generations that are lacking from many Brontë events that need to be involved. No one is disfiguring the Brontës' original works, they are simply trying to get new people to view them as we do and love them as we do. And what's behind all this? The need for safekeeping the largest collection of Brontëana in the world. Cultural snobbism helps no one, not the Brontës not anyone.
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