FIRST FRIDAY: The monster mash, literary style

Quirk Books didn't want to bogart all the mashup-creating fun (see: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), so it opened up a contest called Art of the Mash-Up, in which the artistically inclined were invited to create monsterrific book titles of their own. (The Meowmorphosis is already taken. Damn.)

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FIRST FRIDAY: The monster mash, literary style

POSTED: Friday, April 1, 2011, 1:00 PM

Quirk Books — local publisher of "irreference," aka everything from tips on making sure your boyfriend isn't a demon to a treasury of "yo momma" compliments — can be credited with taking old, stuffy classic novels and jazzing them up via vampires, werewolves and all manner of monsters. (See: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.)

But Quirk didn't want to bogart all the mashup-creating fun, so it opened up a contest called Art of the Mash-Up, in which the artistically inclined were invited to create monsterrific book titles of their own. (The Meowmorphosis is already taken. Damn.)

The contest is over, but the best entries (including Othello, the Moor of Venus; Mime and Punishment; and our personal favorite, pictured above, Jane Eyre: The Confident Centaur) are on display tonight at Brave New Worlds (45 N. Second St., 215-925-6525, bravenewworldscomics.com). The piece will be for sale via silent auction, with proceeds going to the Red Cross for Japan disaster relief.

Need more First Friday guidance? Check out Holly Otterbein's column right here.

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