If Oscar Wilde showed up at your house tonight, after the initial screaming and rundown of current events, what movie would you put on for him?
Save for any actual literary zombies, imagining what your favorite novelist or playwright would have on their Netflix queue can help you plan a Poe-themed Halloween party or a Jane Austen girls night.
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And for those who are still crossing their fingers for time travel, it never hurts to be prepared.
If F. Scott Fitzergerald rose from the dead and happened to find himself in front of a TV, he'd surely wonder what the aimlessly rich are up to these days?
Wilde and Monty Python are both highly quotable. By hanging out with a crowd in Black Knight shirts, he'd more likely find people who want to talk about The Importance of Being Earnest.
The American humorist probably would have liked the take of this British humorist on American culture and their attitude towards other cultures.
Poe would have appreciated the suspense of PLL, as well as the nicely named spin-off Ravenswood.
Chances are, Ms. Woolf would be psyched to see a bunch of women getting an O.R. room of their own.
A female-driven comedy about two women who certainly don't need a man but sometimes want one anyway would have entertained Jane Austen.
Plus, think of all the humblebrags she could drop -- at least three Austen novels were mentioned during the show's run.
Beyond appreciating the whole "dead becomes alive" motif, Shelley would have enjoyed the heavy theme of inescapable destiny that Sleepy Hollow uses.
"Everybody lies" could have been the tagline of almost all of Shakespeare's plays.
Dickens was all about serializing entertainment, so he would have appreciated this 33 chapter musical epic.
Because, really, the March women were just a more superior girl group.
William Faulker was all about dialect, oftentimes incomprehensible to anyone outside of the demographic he was writing about. Juno also seems at times to introduce an entirely new language.
While Asylum's less-than-respectful religious visuals would have been off-putting to O'Connor's Catholic religion, Coven's Gothic themes and Southern setting matches up nicely with her writing.
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