Legally, there’s nothing wrong with this sort of liberty-taking, if that’s what it is-Austen died over 100 years ago and the text of Pride and Prejudice has long been in the public domain-but there is considerable debate as to what constitutes a reimagining or a rip-off, let alone exploitation. In the 21st century, that usage crossed a threshold into unabashed exploitation with novels like Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009), a parody of the Jane Austen classic that deploys some 85 percent of its prose verbatim. Wells’s darkest scientific romance, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896).Īuthors have used the technique of riffing on (or altogether reworking) old storylines for centuries. In her latest novel, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (2022), she retells what may be H. She must have liked the idea of using another author’s work as a speculative template. Set in the Mexican countryside, this feminist horror novel depicts a woman’s oneiric, dread-inducing experience in a haunted mansion that siphons Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic gothic tale “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Like Poe, Moreno-Garcia features an enigmatic lord of the manor, bad omens, hidden family secrets, and a murder mystery. THE TITLE of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic (2020) denotes its story as well as its literary subgenre.
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